Fury Rocks
by Paul BayneGlorious!!
Warm
and flat calm – no sign at all of the force 3 easterly and everyone
arrived early! We headed out towards Beaufort and the crew were happy
with the idea of the north shore and were also happy with the idea of
Fury Rock – so Fury Rock it was!
Hard to imagine that a
typhoon past by exactly one week earlier since we enjoyed a glorious 4
m viz and it was light down to around 25m! 
Vicky
and new member Gilaine were the most exicted of the first wave with
reports of a huge sweetlips and fish everywhere! Joerg and myself
clipped on our nitrox stages for a crack at a deeper dive. The
shot-line turned out to be in 27m and we gently tootled down to 33m.
The white soft corals were enormous standing at least 1m off the
bottom. The fans were in excellent condition and we ascended up through
a forest of whips.
Things kept on getting better in the
shallows. We ascended from the west of the rock to the north where the
reef decends into a series of little gulleys. There was an octopus and
an enormous lobster (tentacle approx 60cm long) and nudi branches
everywhere – we even saw 2 different species of nudis mating!
There were 3 different species of blennies as well
The
tide turned by the time of the second wave and we decended the anchor
line down to series of enormous boulders all north of the rock at
approx 18m – glorious!
