Monday, November 19, 2007

Diving Day Six: Le Fin

On the final day of diving we only descended on one location, Steve’s Bommie. Our dive master explained that the bommie was named after a diver who lost his life on a nearby reef.

Similar to Lighthouse Bommie, this reef’s isolated location meant that all sorts of life gravitated to the coral for food and protection. The bommie offered a number of strange creatures including a couple of camouflaged stonefish and flame file shell. We also came across a number of large anemones hosting the overly dramatic and erratic clown fish.

At one point I turned my head away from the coral and all I could see was a wall of schooling blue lined snapper easily the size of an IMAX screen and so dense that you could not see through them. The top of the reef also flickered with thousands of what I think were purple anthias.



School is clearly in session


We slowly surfaced from our six day dream, dried off and sat down for lunch and conversation.

I spent most of the afternoon getting all of our photos and video in order and then, as with all Mike Ball dive trips, we spent the last evening partying with a BBQ and plenty of beer. To make things more interesting our last night was also Halloween and I marked the occasion by dressing up as Crocodile Dundee.

The following morning we woke up dry-mouthed and docked back in Cairns.

Anemone fish

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