Thursday, November 18, 2010

Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Thursday 18 November 2010

Lighthouse Bay rocked!! We started at Blizzard Ridge and had all of the usual critters: school of threadfin pearl perch, olive sea snakes, honeycomb cod, fusiliers getting cleaned by attentive cleaner wrasse, moray eels, banded pipefish, estuary cod, lionfish, white tip reef sharks, wobbies, longfin bannerfish... And the ANGLERFISH is back!! Yippeee!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

Labyrinth was also packed with fish: estuary cod, coral trout (hunting!), many spotted sweetlips, pink anemonefish, sailfin catfish, monocle bream, batfish big & small, white tip reef sharks, barracuda, trevally, many different angelfish, big school of convict surgeons...and green turtles sleeping and swimming. Our best find today? A Ward's Wobbegong shark. Don't see these guys very often!
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

We also had humpback whales and dolphins on our trip out and back. Great day!

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