Sunday, December 26, 2010

Exmouth Diving report - Muiron Islands Sunday 26 December 2010

Happy Boxing Day! It was a HOT day here in Exmouth and on the boat at the Muiron Islands was the place to be to keep cool.

Whalebone had lots of parrotfish action today. Big ones, little ones, purple, orange, blue and yellow ones! They were munching the corals, darting after each in games of chasey and were just everywhere we looked. The swim throughs had quite a few baitfish in them and lots of blacktipped rockcods along the walls. Many spotted sweetlips hung under ledges and trios of batfish swam above our heads. Our cute reindeer wrasse was busy wafting here, there and everywhere over the sand. It was a very active dive site today!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild-moderate
DEPTH: 12m

Keyhole was also pretty active and we saw tons of nudibranchs, small moray eels, three kinds of shrimps and many tiny hermit crabs. Big schools of fusiliers sparkled in mid-water and four big mackerel patrolled the perimeter, occasionally darting in towards us for a better look. White tip reef sharks, giant trevally, neon damsels, longfin bannerfish, coral trout, rankin cod - the variety of fish was excellent!
WATER TEMP: 27C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild - moderate
DEPTH: 12m

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