Another beautiful day here on the Ningaloo Reef! We headed to Blizzard Ridge to get the action started and all of the fish came out to see us. Lionfish were scattered along the entire site and there was one group of four snugged up on a ledge while another floated just above them with his fins spread right out. Huge estuary cod floated behind us as we checked out the masses of schooling threadfin pearl perch, snapper and sea pike. Several octopus were out and about putting on a show, colourful nudibranchs displayed their garish colours and juvenile sailfin catfish wriggled just outside their lairs. A friendly olive sea snake adopted our fins and poked around from diver to diver for several minutes before getting bored and wandering off on more interesting business. Great dive!
WATER TEMP: 30C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: mild to moderate on the surface, mild underwater
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m
Green turtles were everywhere on Labyrinth from the time we stopped the boat to the time we left! Underwater they were getting cleaned, scratching their shells on bits of reef, swimming along lazily beside us and snoozing as we came in for a close up. A 2m leopard spotted whiptail ray was half buried in the sand right where we dropped in and a fatty wobbegong shark draped over the reef just a few meters further down the reef. Bannerfish, emperor angelfish, 6 banded angelfish, raccoon butterflyfish, pink anemonefish, neon damsels, blue-green chromis and hot pink anthias added color to the deep blue water. Nudibranchs, hermit crabs and white mouth morays were tucked in here and there all over the site. This dive was amazing for the amount of things we saw everywhere we looked!
WATER TEMP: 30C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: mild
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 14m
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