-- Spoilsport, Thursday, January 2, 2003 --

Dive #4 - Acropolis "Dip Reef", Outer Great Barrier Reef (with Norm and Teri)

No current this morning. Beautiful bommie, covered with hard corals.

Dive #5 - Acropolis "Dip Reef", Outer Great Barrier Reef (with Norm and Teri)

There was considerable current by the time we entered the water for the second dive, so we drifted around to the protected side of the bommie for the majority of the dive. We spotted some cool nudibranch, a goatfish feeding on small juvenile blue damsels, and two different types of pulsing xenia (the first time I've seen them in the water!).

Teri and Norm, at Acropolis

Blue yellow thing, stinging hydroids, and the blue, at Acropolis

Clownfish and bubble-tip anemone

Many juvenile damsels over acropora coral, at Acropolis

Teri, at Acropolis

Little damsels (green chromis?)

Coral seascape, at Acropolis

Lizardfish, Norm and Teri, at Acropolis

Antler coral and squirrelfish, at Acropolis

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