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wall dive called ‘Fingers’. This is what we had come for and were not disappointed. It is truly a magic dive and one that can be justified on any divers bucket list. Hoovering in the blue at around 40m and looking straight up, you are greeted by a gigantic wall emerging from the deeps covered in snow-white soft corals. Here we also found orange whip corals with resident gobies, sponges, yellow, red, and orange gorgonians, and reef fish dashing about. What a way to start a dive vacation. We sat around the evening dinner table that night hoping the rest of the trip was going to be equally thrilling. Day two saw us at ‘Free-Way’. Another fantastic wall dive: beautiful snow-white soft corals, an encounter with a large turtle, and in one of the many swim-throughs; a very big moray eel and even a friendly Triton Triggerfish. Everywhere we swam there were schools of Chromis, Damsels, Anthias, and Blue and Yellow Fusiliers. We made this, and several dives to follow, a multi-level dive so we could push our bottom times out to an hour and did our safety stops either on the reef or just drifting in the blue with our SMBs ready if needed. After an hour surface interval we were off to ‘Rainbow Passage’ where again we encountered massive coral coverings and colossal schools of small fish. Returning to the resort and after lunch we were off to ‘The Corner’. We found extensive soft and hard coral cover, schools of small fish,

Left Image credit: Cathie Cummins Below Image credit: Terry Cummins

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DIVE LOG Australasia #405 - April ‘24

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