With the baby-sitting arranged and on time Nic and I headed over to Ant Atoll for an overnight camping trip. We trolled most of the way for the elusive marlin, but it proved to be elusive once again. We headed straight to the western side of Ant Atoll and dived the wall. It's forty-fifty metres down to the undercut and from there it is a drop over a thousand metres deep. Awesome.
As soon as I got in the water I looked around for Nic and she was already doing crazy hand signals....
Right beneath us were a couple of solid white-tip reef sharks.
They stayed at a safe distance; at the beginning.....
As always there were heaps of colourful fish.
And the sharks came closer. Great to see them up close.
I like this photo. Nic was just drifting along as this school cruise past at speed.
Colourful critters.
There are plenty of soft corals over at Ant.
All different shapes and sizes.
A beautiful grouper. Very lucky to get one this big to sit still long enough for a photo.
Some sort of 'flute fish' I think.
More colourful coral.
30 metres down looking up through a gap in the reef. Very cool.
Nic trying to get a closer look at a Nemo.
I haven't seen a boar fish this deep before....
Nic, happy to be spending some kid-free time.
Nic's turn with the camera. Great to just float along in the mild current.
You don't normally see clams this deep either.
Out the front of a huge underwater cavern.
Yet another shark, we must have seen at least twenty on this dive.
There were even deep-water Nemos on this dive.
What a great way to start a kid-free overnighter.
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