murky

Diving off a familiar headland the water was murky. This spot genearally has a lot of local grey nurse sharks cruising around. They apparently swim between the dive spot shown above, and another point with much deeper water 500 metres north.

I saw no grey nurse sharks at first spot… Iv learned that when its murky, you seem to have a bigger chance of seeing one closer in where they normally dont go.

I came across this little eagle ray, swimming against pull of the breaking waves.

I spent sometime at the local spot and headed north, to the other headland.

This otherspot is home to a large local ray i know well.

I was hoping to find him and i did. He was on the bottom furthur out toward the front of headland. I got close to him and he turned on the bottom, covering the camera lense with sand.

Whilst i was down on the bottom, i sensed something came past. something dark caught me eye.

In the thick gloom cruising on the bottom was surprise,surprise, a grey nurse shark.

A female. A solid shark. I caught some footage of her, and then she vanished off into the sediment and murkyness.

I could barely see through the murky water. There was salmon flying past through the water. I went back toward the shallows. Appearing out of the gloom was another grey nurse. This time, a male. Larger then the first. Probably the most solid grey nurse iv seen for sometime. I had never seen them at this spot before. It seems the murky water seems to pull them in closer to shore.