Exmouth Diving report - Lighthouse Bay Friday 31 December 2010

Two awesome dives to end 2010! We started at Blizzard Ridge and were escorted down the line by a pair of inquisitive batfish, their yellow fins glowing bright. At the bottom, a plump roughback ray kept one eye on us as cleaner wrasse gave him a scrub & he blew sand into a big cloud. An olive sea snake coiled in and out of the group, checking out fin tips carefully before meandering off. Not bad for the first three minutes of our dive! We also had a giant moray eel waving his head side to side as small clear shrimp picked bits off him, octopus snaking their arms around themselves, trios of bannerfish hovering just inches from our masks, semi-circular angelfish scrounging for tasty treats and wobbegong sharks sleeping under ledges. Fish, fish and more fish today!
WATER TEMP: 28C
VISIBILITY: 10-12m
CURRENT: very mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m

Labyrinth had a lot more food and floaties in the water which reduced visibility but certainly didn't deter mobs of fish putting in an appearance! Lots of green turtles, a huge painted crayfish, batfish, trevally, barracuda, pink anemonefish, parrotfish, butterflyfish, cardinalfish, lionfish, blue spotted stingrays, cleaning stations, wobbegong sharks, white tip reef sharks, five lined sea perch, sharpnose snapper, stars & stripes pufferfish - a feast for the eyes every minute of the dive!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 5m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m