Egga

Great names for dives around here! Shortly after the Muli Out dive, we headed back inside the atoll and headed to another pinnacle, this one surrounded by soft coral and pretty coloured fish, though not in such vast quantities.

As we spiralled around the pinnacle, we were signalled into a hollow in the side of the pinnacle, as apparently there was a lobster hiding inside:

Such beautiful colours, but damned hard to capture!

Swimming over this reef though had a totally different feel to it – not so many fish, but often standing out from the background more because of it. We had no surge here at all, so it really was just buoyancy control and then gently fin around.

Some of the corals themselves were beautiful too, with ledges and fans as well as huge groups of multi-coloured ones all sat together

and all throughout the dive, we had very obliging clown fish who simply won’t leave their anemone unattended, so meant you could hang in the water by them until they appeared to give you your photo:

after nearly 45 minutes of circling  the pinnacle, we were ready to ascend (the top being only 4 or so metres down), when Paul spotted something under an overhang on a rock:

a gorgeous scorpion fish! Amazing!