Muli Out

I’ve got no idea why the reef I dived is called this, it’s a reef on the outside of the atoll with the current washing in towards the centre, and is apparently great for viewing huge fish, if they are obliging!

We jumped in and checked the current and the surge, as this was fun washing into and then away from the reef face, something to get to grips with whilst I snapped away a million photos!

Paul, my Glaswegian dive buddy, pointed to a large bit of brown reef, and whilst I was wondering what he was pointing to, it moved:

a really nice big octopus that was a bit paparazzi shy, so shortly after I took this, it crawled into a cranny, no bigger that your fist, amazing!

The whole of the reef was covered in all sorts of different flavours of fish though, and some of the trigger fish weren’t shy about coming up to you to see what you were about:

As we drifted along the reef our guide pointed out into the blue, and there in the distance we could see a couple of eagle rays effortlessly flying past, but they didn’t get too close. Shortly after out of the gloom a black tip shark came by, but again at a distance.

Back on the reef though, we soon found our next attraction:

quietly munching away on the coral, totally oblivious to us sailing by like this: