Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Wednesday 22 December 2010

After a week of wild, windy, rainy weather we were finally able to head out diving again and since it was a Wednesday, that meant the Muiron Islands! The water was very muddy all the way out but we were confident that there would be some nicer water once we got there - and we were right!

Whalebone's water was slightly more green than blue, but the visibility wasn't terrible and the fish life was fantastic. It's always fun to see Reindeer Wrasse in the week before Christmas! We also had: starry toadfish, emperor angelfish, juvenile emperor angelfish, barramundi cod, barracuda, white tip reef sharks, green turtles, trevally, parrotfish, schools of surgeonfish and sparkly baitfish in the swim-thrus.

And our snorkellers saw a dugong!!

WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 12m

During our surface interval it looked like the water was clearing up close to the Island, so we did Keyhole next and were rewarded with even better visibility and tons of excellent fish and nudibranchs. Lots of snapper, trevally, barracuda, sea pike and small rankin cod hung out in mid-water. Teeny juvenile yellow boxfish danced in and out of small holes in the reef and a variety of happy bright butterflyfish flitted everywhere we looked.
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 15m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 12m