7/16/2007 - Biggest Grey Nurse Shark I Have Ever Seen

15/07/07

48mins. Max depth 21m. Water temp 17C

Julian Rocks, Byron Bay, New South Whales

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I love going out with my dive club. You know that, no matter what, you are going to have a brilliant time, and our Sunday dive at Julian Rocks did not disappoint. While we didn't see hordes of GNS, we saw a huge mutha.

Let me tell you, if I hadn't known it was a GNS, it would have been brown underpants time. I "think" it was about 6m long, but it seemed about 10m long when I saw it... if you know what I mean.

We dropped in at the nursery, then headed out through the trenches to Cray Cave then the Cod Hole. We covered a lot of ground - but it was pretty easy going.

We saw:

A whole school of bat fish - amazing.

Tons of Woobigongs - including two having sex.... I didn't know what they were doing, so Shona did some hip thrusts and I still had no idea - let's just say there was some finger poking through the ok sign to make me understand.

Queensland Blues

Trevally

Pipefish

Groupers

Moorays

Lion Fish

Damsels

As always - we dived with Byron Bay Dive and appreciated their professionalism.

My dive club is through the wonderful people at Devocean Dive. Our next club dive is going to be 9mile - so very excited about that.