Oh yeah, Baby!! Ningaloo Reef is freakin' rocking the new month!! They had eight whale sharks yesterday and I haven't heard about today, but the conditions are glorious. Coral has begun to spawn in places, but the viz is still pretty dang nice.
Lighthouse Bay, pretty much my favourite all year round destination, is crankin'. Blizzard Ridge has the first of the big schools bringing in the predators and I spent pretty much the whole dive just hanging out in the middle of the action today. James, the dive guide for Exmouth Diving Centre today, was sitting a few feet in front of me just chillin while his group enjoyed the festivities when all of a sudden BANG! This huge noise and even bigger cod just exploded inches from us. There were so many fish we hadn't even seen this six foot guy in the crevice before he was right on top of us. So cool! I had a second cod explode straight up hunting a bit later but I was so close to him I even with the 10mm fisheye I couldn't get his mouth in! Wild dive.
Dive two was Labyrinth and it is just starting to see a few small groups of bait. Lots of turtles, an enormous cowtail ray, a really nice if too shy leopard shark, cool nudis, more turtles and just stuff everywhere I went. Not as crazy action packed, but I did 70 minutes and every minute was interesting.
It's also 28C again - yippeee!!
Haven't gone thru all the photos or the little videos yet, but here's a couple
Lighthouse Bay, pretty much my favourite all year round destination, is crankin'. Blizzard Ridge has the first of the big schools bringing in the predators and I spent pretty much the whole dive just hanging out in the middle of the action today. James, the dive guide for Exmouth Diving Centre today, was sitting a few feet in front of me just chillin while his group enjoyed the festivities when all of a sudden BANG! This huge noise and even bigger cod just exploded inches from us. There were so many fish we hadn't even seen this six foot guy in the crevice before he was right on top of us. So cool! I had a second cod explode straight up hunting a bit later but I was so close to him I even with the 10mm fisheye I couldn't get his mouth in! Wild dive.
Dive two was Labyrinth and it is just starting to see a few small groups of bait. Lots of turtles, an enormous cowtail ray, a really nice if too shy leopard shark, cool nudis, more turtles and just stuff everywhere I went. Not as crazy action packed, but I did 70 minutes and every minute was interesting.
It's also 28C again - yippeee!!
Haven't gone thru all the photos or the little videos yet, but here's a couple
But still, some days you just have awesomeness!
