Well, we have been so busy getting wet there has hardly been time for current updates. Diving has been excellent through August and September and we have been very lucky spotting some amazing critters. I have managed to find two seahorses in the same week; one was so tiny it could hardly be seen. Since mid-August we have also come across 5 (!!!) nurse sharks, all on different dive sites, numerous juvenile smooth trunkfish aka ‘Peas’ (three in the space of three days alone just recently, lots of scorpion fish hiding in the reef, stingrays and eagle rays, the elusive painted elysia sea slug and three tiny red lined blue nudibranchs, tons of neck crabs, a shortfin pipefish floating about in midwater, there’s been a couple of harlequin pipefish trying their best to hide from us in the coral as well as all the usual turtles, giant green moray eels, horse eye jacks, king crabs, lobsters, groupers and squid etc.
At the end of August I saw my first ever octopus during the day, whilst doing the safety stop at Blue Channel at the end of the afternoon dive, and this is after almost 500 dives. Mind you we usually get to see them there at night, top count is 5 in one night dive so far, which was last week.
A couple of days ago we had a wicked afternoon dive at West End Wall with strong current where at one point we found ourselves surrounded by no less than 12 (!!!) great barracudas, during the whole dive we must have seen about 30 of them. So things have been absolutely amazing underwater and now that my new mask has stopped fogging up it can only get better!!!!

Nicole