So the plan was to spend saturday and sunday looking for the Spider Caves and the Bubble Cave at Broughton Island.
Saturday - we head out on the boat, and from the directions we were given from the local dive shop, and the aerial view map we had from the local coast guards, it looked like we were in the correct spot for the Spider Caves. Once we get under the water all would be revealed.
So we go down the anchor line, and find we're in 12metres. The Tom Byron book says that the Spider Caves were in fact in 12metres. So we started looking. After about 10 minutes of looking around we start to think we wouldn't find it. We turn around and start heading back when we pass a school of Bullseye

, we take a closer look ( the local dive shop told us you'll know if you have found the caves as there is bullseyes protecting the entrance ). We found them.

As you can see from my pitiful drawing below, the cave had three exit/entry points. Four dead ends ( one with a massive Cuttlefish with the words ' leave me alone ' in colourful language written all over its face )

, and down one of the swim throughs there was the biggest Port Jackson shark i have ever seen ( actually it could've been a Crested Horn Shark, but it was too dark to get a good enough look at it ).
Once we went through the cave for the first time, i was the last one out of it, my two buddies were blah blah

blah blah blah blah like mothers in a pta meeting. It was so funny, i couldn't make out anything they were saying but they could understand each other.
So we went back through a couple more times till we were getting low on air.
49minutes 17metres later we were back on the boat. We decided to skip the second dive, as we didn't think any dive for the rest of the day could top this one.

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