Wow. What a day! We had the most fantastic dive ever. Once again it was up early for day two of the course at the Muiron Islands. The first dive was at JL.80, and was our peak performance bouyancy dive. It wasn't entirely successful as we both got caught in a swell and popped to the surface, but that's the way it goes. We took our cameras with us for the first time and tried out taking some photos -- not easy! There was some great coral at this site though. Dive 2 was at Cob Sanctuary and was completely amazing. As soon as we got in the water, we saw a massive manta ray at a cleaning station. This is where little fish swim in and out of the manta rays mouth and gills and clean them. We all sat on the bottom of the ocean and watched as the manta ray swam over us and played in our bubbles. It was truly fantastic...an amazing experience. After the manta ray moved on, we got on with our dive and tried to find things to photograph as this was our Underwater Photography dive. We spotted a Wobbegong shark in the reef, and as we went up to take a photo there were another two! There were loads of fish everywhere too and as we headed back towards to boat we saw a couple of white tipped reef shark. Wow!! It was by far the best dive I have ever done and even AJ said it was a one in a hundred dive, and he's done thousands of dives.
We had lunch on the boat and went for a swim and a wander on one of islands. Then it was back to the dive shop to complete the paperwork and we're both qualified Advanced divers -- Woo Hoo! Both delighted. It was well worth doing!
We planned to move on tomorrow, but this evening we tried to find accomodation for tomorrow night and a Karijini National Park tour for Tuesday, but unfortunately neither were available. We did manage to book accomodation for Tuesday and Wednesday night and a tour for Wednesday, so we'll have to hang around Exmouth for another day, which means two more nights in the Potshot :-(.
