Lady Musgrave Island
Posted by Ray @ 9:33 amSo I spent 5D/4N on the M.V. Esperance Star. We went out to Lady Musgrave Island, which is a National Park some 60 miles off the east coast of Australia.
Musgrave is one of the most gorgeous things I’ve ever seen; blue skies and ocean for 360 degrees all around you, some of the clearest waters you’ve ever been in (visibility was about 18metres), dolphins frolicking in the waters next to you as we chugged along from dive site to dive site… this is the life, people.
Couple the surroudings with good food, good company, excellent weather and lots and lots of diving, and you have the most well-spent AUS$550 ever.
But I digress. There are photos to show off!
Our ship, the MV Esperance Star, moored at Burnett Heads
Fishies!
Some kind of shellfish. I wonder what it tastes like…
Descent into the abyss
Lady Musgrave from the boat
A kind of hard coral
It reminds me of a kind of candy I’ve eaten before, the name of which I forget.
I have no idea what this is
The coral beach of Lady Musgrave Island
More beach at Lady Musgrave
The mothership anchored in Lady Musgrave Lagoon
Nudibranch!
The view from below
Braaaains
If ever we should be overrun by zombies, we could distract them with these.
A diver molesting a hapless sea anemone
Give us a kiss, then
Humans! Flee! (Video here)
That’s it! Sadly, I’ve yet to receive a DVD with photos from everybody’s cameras. This is only from 1 person (thanks, Mitch!). If I ever get the DVD I’ll post more interesting photos here… in the meantime, here are a list of things seen but not pictured:
- A huge sting ray during a night dive on a shipwreck. And I mean huge, its wings spanned wider than my arms could stretch.
- A wobbegong shark, that I touched. Not recommended, as the wobbegong is one of the only sharks flexible enough to be able to bend back and bite its tail without having to turn around.
- Some very, very pretty cone shells.
- An albino shark, later found out to be a Port Jackson shark.
- Jellyfish that would strobe purple and green at night. Very beautiful.
- Big turtles.
- Lionfish (they’re poisonous, don’t touch ‘em!)
- Stars of all shapes and sizes.
- A strange-looking sponge with tendrils coming out of it.
- Crabs!
- And many more that I can’t remember.
So if you’re ever in the area, and you can scuba dive, remember to visit Lady Musgrave. I have it on good authority that it’s the best dive that you can do in the Brisbane area - better than Lady Elliot, even (which I’ve yet to visit). Don’t miss it, folks.
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wahahhaz, that parrot fish looks pissed off when he saw u. Did you do something funny to it? =p
Comment by Nix — Monday, October 10 2005 @ 10:40 pm
Beautiful pictures!
Comment by tscd — Tuesday, October 11 2005 @ 6:39 am
gawd, i’m getting more jealous by the day. gone for night dives yet?
Comment by Gwen — Tuesday, October 11 2005 @ 1:33 pm
Nix: nope, it was just doing its thing
tscd: I know! Not taken by me, sadly.
Gwen: Dived a shipwreck at night. That’s where I saw the jellyfish. When you poke them, their bioluminescence goes off and they strobe purple and green.
Comment by Ray — Wednesday, October 12 2005 @ 10:16 pm