Rottnest Island Dive - Part 3
Dive 2: Crystal Palace, Rottnest Island
Well after a hearty lunch, we headed off to our second dive spot. We anchored and the sun was shining brightly. Again, the hearty skipper proceeded to tell us the depth and that Crystal Palace was a beautiful cavern like landscape situated towards the west. This time the temperature though still 18degrees Celcius but because of the sun, it felt better.
Th current was strong and the earth felt like it was moving because this sandy bottom only had weeds growing and thus when the weeds move it caused a relativity effect to your eyes.
We managed to find the place and I should say that this was better than the first dive. The cave like formation is made from a raised rock or coral and thus it was beautiful. One of them had their air run out so we had to surface earlier and upon ascending a large manta ray cruised at the surface ever so gentle and effortlessly despite its enormous size.
A nudibranch
This was something I had never seen. It is called a Baler snail and it is huge. Beautiful design on its body.
This chap the devil fish was irritating me when I was taking a shot of the Baler snail. So I decided to take its photo and see how nicely, this little Devil posed for me.
The three of my friends who dived with me.
Rob, John and Hayley
Thus ended my dive in Australia. The next time I come, I must go up to Ningaloo Reef.
