The diving has been great on the Great Barrier Reef, with some particularly good dives at Raging Horn and at Acropolis. 

 

Some of the May critter sightings from Nimrod Explorer:

 

·         A manta ray and three hammerhead sharks at Raging Horn

·         A hammerhead shark on a night dive at Pixie’s Pinnacle

·         A leafy scorpion fish at Jaynem’s Wall

·         At Steve’s Bommie: a stargazer, a black cowrie shell, a white leaf scorpion fish, a silver tip shark, a wobbegong shark and several white tip reef sharks

·         At Lighthouse Bommie: turtles, nudibranchs, an olive sea snake and several long-nose hawkfish

·         At Andy’s Postcard a yellow lacey scorpion fish on the night dive

·         Grey whale sharks

·         White and black tip reef sharks

·         Green Moray Eels

·         Stone fish

 

While moored up for the night at Lizard Island, a male tawny nurse shark visited the boat.  Three guests got into the water to snorkel with him and he swam right up to them!  Sounds very cool!

 

Spinner dolphins love to ride bow waves, and several pods of them have been visiting Nimrod Explorer on a regular basis as the boat moves between dive sites. 

 

The average water temperature has been 25 – 26C.