Bowmouth Guitar Shark on Manta Reef!!!

Amazing dive down South at Manta Reef this morning! Dropping down and spending pretty much most of our dive on the Northern drop point, which was were everything seemed to be. Starting off with a couple of the smaller creatures, 1 White Leaf Fish, a Torpedo Ray, small Octopus and 2 Painted Frog Fish, then we saw a couple of the bigger guys. Starting with a big Bowmouth Guitar Shark who cruised out in front of us, with a smaller Blotched Fantail Ray coming to inspect a bit closer and then lastly a Loggerhead Turtle! Just to end of the dive we had a school of Bat Fish playing around and amongst us on the Safety Stop, really was a beautiful day out this morning :)

Sharks, Sharks and more Sharks!!!

Just an update for a awesome double tank out at Amazon and Oasis yesterday! Starting with Amazon: As we got down to the bottom we were met by a beautiful Leopard Shark, he seemed very relaxed with us and spent a good deal of time chilling around allowing us to watch him close up, after that we had steady encounters of Whitetip Reef Sharks, sometimes up to 3 together and we reckon there were at least 8 in total, getting near to the end of the dive we had the pleasure of watching a Spotted Eagle Ray cruise by, upon ascent just before the safety stop we also had a Devil Ray playing down below us! Great visibility and not a lot of current also helped us out on that first dive! Next up was Oasis: Although the visibility was not as great as our first dive it definitely was the dive of the morning! A very similar situation as our first dive in terms of the Sharks, however this time round we sometimes would have 3-4 Whitetip Reef Sharks to one side with another 2-3 on the other, found a couple of them sleeping on the sandy bottom as well, all in all we would say about 11 different ones! Also had a Grey Reef Shark, 2 Blotched Fantail Rays (one was pretty huge!), a Bowmouth Guitar Shark, a little Leaf Fish and to end off our dive 13 Devil Rays which came around twice! Fantastic day of diving!!! :)

Manta Reef, Blue and full of life!!!

Awesome dive out this morning to Manta Reef! Great visibility with hardly any current and a lot of life down there! We saw 2 Loggerhead Turtles ( 1 hiding in a cave and another 1 swimming past ), 2 Painted Frog Fish, 2 Stone Fish, 1 Black Leaf Fish, 1 Harlequin Shrimp and a huge friendly Potato Grouper! Lovely blue warm water ( 27 degrees ) and it was just a magical start to the morning! :)