Saturday, November 04, 2006

Diving in Ningaloo Reef and Coral Bay


Hey again. I made two dives to Ningaloo reef from Exmouth and Manta ray tour from Coral Bay. Total 3 dives to great spots and saw again some new stuff. In Exmouth I went to diving trip with Village dive. Saw some huge seasnakes which swam just next to me and I wasn't quite sure whether to panic or not. One bite and you'd be done. I also saw really cool yellow mooray eel which was angrily defending it's hole against us and the fish.


We also went to Cape Range national park for 2 nights. Really nice snorkelling and beautiful beaches. Two gorges to do some walking as well...


In the Coral Bay I went to Manta ray tour. The tour included one snorkelling spot for spotting manta rays and one reef dive. We had a spotter plane looking for mantas so chances to find this huge ray were supposed to be pretty good. And succesful I was and were lucky to snorkel with 4m ray around 15 minutes. Manta ray is like a battleship, slowly flying in the ocean with lots of fish escorting. Massive, amazing. The dive was one of the best ones I've had as well. Visibility was good and the corals were amazing. I saw three big gray reef sharks at the same time, turtle, lionfish and heaps other.

Now I'm in Kalbarri. There's again some surf here put looks quite rocky. Maybe I'll wait for the high tide and see if it gets any better. I'm missing my surfing mates who are probably around Exmouth at the moment. Greetings to them and everyone else :)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Timo!
I had a question about your traveling across Australia. I'm looking for a good place to study abroad there from the States. New Castle was one of my choices. What did you think of it? Where is the best place to go while I'm there or stay for college?
Lana

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