My second dive for the day and with the seas up and coming from the SW Bare Island West was the go.  It was quite flat and at 6.30 at night a great time to be getting in, esp with high tide just an hour before.  Viz was poor but we headed out along the N side of the reef, out to it's end.  We found a lone sea horse there but a surprise, not more the 10m away in a rock crevice was a dwarf lionfish.  We followed the S side of the reef past a very large and angry cuttle.  A bit further along, to our surprise as a juvenile PJ.  Quite calm, all 3 of us surrounded us and it was not startled, even when our strobes went off in it's face.  We headed a bit further East before going back over the reef and ending back at the ramp.  Water was a beautiful 22^oC.

Robert in flight		red rock cod	wrasse
mourning cuttle			dwarf lionfish	dwarf lionfish
sea horse	dwarf lionfish	large cuttle	stinkfish	juvenile PJ
cuttle	juvenile PJ

 

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