Went out diving on the Bouvards last Saturday with a mate. Decided to try some ground west of the reef on the 15m contour. After much deliberation amd discussions. 

Very clear once we got in the water and very diverse life, corals fans fish. Few crays about. I wouldnt say it was choked though. Hard pressed to get 2 crays from out of a ledge. The creature blowing in the black suit that took their mate made them think twice about hanging at the front of the ledge.

Hadnt seen much decent fish but some small fox fish and an undersized dhuie. Whilst trying to coax a cray into my catchbag a decent fox fish appeared and ended up impaling itself on my speargun. Got back to the boat followed by my mate whod shot a female blue which surprised me in its size approx 70cm. 

With a dozen crays between us we headed to some ground hed seen crays and dhufish the Saturday before the ban. Hed seen some decent KGs also. Anchor down and off we go. Swimming past a cave suddenly my mate is deep in a cave but without his speargun. With me thinking hes shot something big and now chasing it. Finally he catches his speargun and a good KG. 

Ambling around a bit more we got a few more crays, mate shot a small pink going 55cm. The whites were the biggest ive seen with some going 800gms.

With the breeze in and the drive back home we left and got had a quick tin at the general store

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