The first two dives were at Nudi Rock and Tank Rock, which are right next to each other and effectively the same reef.
There were a lot of fish and a decent amount of fans and soft corals. On the second dive, Rob went off with Appe to shoot macro and managed to find a pygmy seahorse. We also saw a pygmy on our dive, which Vicky found, so that evened things out. It was a very nice pygmy sighting, so after the dive we nervously waited for Rob to return to see if he had found one too (phew).
The number of fish, and the number of different kinds of fish, was pretty high across both dives. It felt like one of those sites where everywhere you look there is something different. I kept thinking it was like Cordell Bank (in terms of number of fish) but with 20 different species of fish instead of one :) We also saw one turtle on the reef.
By the way, in case you are wondering about the name “Nudi Rock” it is not because there are a particular number or kind of nudibranch on the site… it’s because the rock that sticks out above the water is shaped like a nudibranch, and it really is. I must admit I was less bought into “Tank Rock” being shaped like a tank.
In the afternoon, we went to a jellyfish lake on the way north. I’ve never been to a jellyfish lake before. There were not quite as many jellyfish as there are in some that I’ve seen pictures of, but there was a decent aggregation in some spots. Still pretty cool to see. The speedboat ride through the islands on the way there and back was also very nice.
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