Seas were up again so having managed a dive at Minmi trench and the seas getting bigger and sloppier we headed into Botany Bay and to Anchor Reef.  Wow is the word.  Water was a warm 22^oC and viz was great.  We anchored right above the anchor and our slate.  I put a new slate in the rope there.  I'm curious whether divers get here much.  Right at the start there was a boar fish, again out in the open.  Got some nice pics of it.  We headed East around the reef and followed it around.  On the other side I found a nudie that I hadn't seen before.  I got some pics of it (see below).  We headed right around the reef and back to the anchor again.  We then criss crossed the reef, finding a weedie.  There were lots of other fish including schools of yellowtail, bulleye, old wives, groper, cardinals and mowongs to name a few.  Again a lovely dive at this old favourite.  We spent 57 mins here at a depth of around 18m, even on 24% Nitrox we were out of no decompression time.

long snouted boarfish	the anchor	new slate	cuttle	cuttle close up
cuttle side on	bullseye	black reef leatherjacket	yellowtail	old wives
mowong	black reef leatherjackets	new nudie 1	new nudie 2	new nudie 3
rope and anchor	weedie sea dragon	weedie sea dragon	sweet ceratosoma
stripeys	bullseye in the gutter	Wayne

 

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