Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Sunday 21 November 2010

What a gorgeous Sunday to be out at the Muiron Islands! Keyhole was first up for us and the water was so blue and the sun beams were streaming down on the brightly coloured soft corals like spotlights - it was magical! Plenty of sea creatures cruising around, too: many spotted sweetlips, white tip reef sharks, barracuda, emperor angelfish, yellow trumpetfish, green turtles, sailfin catfish, ornate surgeonfish, batfish and tons of sparkly damsels. Best find today was a ginormous potato cod that adopted us - he would float right in front of us and just stare into our masks. Very cool!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m

North East Bommies was up for dive two and again the fish & marine life was great. Bannerfish, sea pike, lionfish, snapper, white tip reef sharks, moray eels, monocle bream, rankin cod, coral cod, squirrelfish, nudibranchs, blue spotted rays, slingjaw wrasse - the list is almost endless!
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 11m

We had lunch and a big snorkel around East Side Bommies. Schools of convict surgeons, lots of big parrotfish, more turtles, lionfish, lots of little groups of balling catfish, sergeant majors guarding their nests - it was a perfect afternoon!