We headed out to the Muiron Islands, confident that the visibility was finally clearing up and were rewarded with great blue water on dive one at Whalebone. The colours of the soft corals were vibrant blues, yellows, oranges, pinks and purples. A big school of drummers spun a flashing silver funnel from the bottom almost to the surface as we hovered nearby trying not to get dizzy. The swim thrus had a little bait action and some medium sized cods hanging out in the shadows. Nudibranchs, sailfin catfish, yellow flutemouths, mangrove jacks and blue spotted lagoon rays caught our eyes and a funny batfish weaved back and forth across the sand. We had a lovely dive!
WATER TEMP: 28C
VISIBILITY: 12m
CURRENT: mild; current & chop on surface
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 12m
The breeze started to come in, so we tucked around to the other side of the Islands for the rest of the day and did dive two at East Side Bommies. Unfortunately, the visibitliy wasn't as great, but the water was still blue and there were 1000s of small things to see up close: eels, Christmas tree worms, damsels, anthias, firefish, blue spotted rays, shrimps, porcelain crabs and anemonefish. We also had some white tip reef sharks, pairs of moorish idols, lots of bright yellow butterflyfish, purple, orange & green parrotfish and many other pretty reef fish. A relaxing & enjoyable dive!
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