What a sight!

After over 1000 dives in the Whitsundays I have seen a first. A coral trout catching and devouring a blue and gold fusilier. The coral trout banged against my leg as it went to grab it's prey! Wow!

Hungry coral trout with its lunch!

Lauren, Antony (from Victoria) , Fredrick and Helena (from Germany) got to see the action!

Great diving and loads of whales.

What an amazing day.
Clear blue skies, flat calm seas. And whales breaching all over the place.
Mother and calf up close too. Seeing whales breaching off Blue Pearl Bay. Seeing whales as we were heading to Langford. Stunning!!!

The diving today was also amazing. Gorgeous visibility. And I saw a Scrawled Filefish, for the first time.

Tonia and Lisa from Germany

Scrawled Filefish

Scrawled Filefish

First whale breaching of the season!

Wow what an awesome site. A huge female whale breaching beside its calf. What a sight.

An exciting day

The day started with a yellow fin tuna being landed on the fishing line, and Josef having to work hard to bring it in.

Look what I've got!

Then a good dive at Blue Pearl Bay with some great things to see.

Bat fish in a swim through

Coral Trout

Nudibranch

Harlequin Tusk Fish

And Boom Netting Fun!

Then we got to see a whale and calf as we started to head home. Awesome!

Lots to see and do in the Whitsundays

The chance of seeing whales and dolphins is always on our minds at the moment. Exciting prospects.
The viz diving has been brilliant at Langford the last couple of days also.
Seeing stingrays amazing coral and fish. Divers having fun and trying new things.

Whales whales and more whales

Wow what a week. We have seen whales just outside Blue Pearl Bay a couple of days ago. Yesterday we saw whales as we were heading towards Langford Island. Today we saw them on the way over to Hayman Island and on the way back to Abel Point Marina! Amazing creatures. One of the whales today had a large pod of dolphins playing around it! Wow!

 

 

First whale seen today!!!

Yippee. We saw a whale today. The first one of the season.
We now have a hydrophone on board and it was awesome to be able to hear the whale clicking!

We have been doing lots of intro diving at Blue Pearl over the last week. The viz is getting better as the weather settles down!

Family of 6 from Sydney all on their first dive