Friday 4th Dive - Casuarina Point

Friday Dive: We swam in a westerly direction from the cove at Don Foster's Dive. We reached and crossed the sand flats in direction to the edge of the wall. The conchs again were out in full force. It was a Conch Garden! Within many of them we could observe their resident Conch Fish. Also many of them had Mermaid Unbrellas and Sponges growing on their shells. Next to one of this conchs we observed a shellfish literally fly out of the sand,made a long arch through the water to then land about a foot and half from starting point. When we got really close she proceeded to open and close her shell and buried herself until totally covered.
Hundreds of Garden Eels were out as there was a slight southerly current. Jacks and Hog fish were munching on creatures found under the sand.
Once at the edge of the west wall, we saw several pretty big French Angel fish, Tiger Groupers and Trompet fish.
Many chromis aggregations were hanging in about 30 feet of water by the wall and the shallow are at Devil's Grotto. Also there was a big school of Houndfish close to the surface (about 80 of them, all about the same size).
Tracy spotted the two green morays we saw. Both been cleaned by Gobies and Shrimp.
Today we used the big magnifying glass and we managed to observe with detail many of these creatures. One highlight was a fairly large size "Pigmy Filefish" we have been spotting at a certain coral head. All the details of the skin texture were noted with the help of the glass.
Bottom Time: 127 minutes
Max Depth:59 Feet
Avg: 40 feet
Direction: West; North; East; South; East to the DFD Cove