Dive Sites
Heron Bommie
Coral Canyons
Harry's Bommie
Pam's Point
Gorgonia Hole
North Bommie
Tenements 1
Libbie's Lair
Coral Cascades
Wistari 1
A dive site perfect for all levels, the mooring lies in 12m of water on beautiful white sand. Gutters near the mooring lead to a small wall teaming with sea life. Shoals of silver drummer, red bass and fusiliers swim together in the shallows, Large anemones along the wall provide some great photo opportunities and the deeper bommies host many species including porcupine fish and flute mouth’s. 5-16m
Although the big Sea Anemones like Magnificient Anemone Heteractis magnifica may not sting if you touch them; don't! They can certainly injure unproteced skin, so don't touch them when taking images of their Anemonefish.
(Photo: Neville Coleman)
Only found around rubble banks, or on sand near reef, the Whitebarred Triggerfish Rhinecanthus aculeatus is an elusive species and always difficult to get close enough to obtain good images.
(Photo: Neville Coleman)
Pincushion Sea Stars Culcita novaeguineae feed on the flesh of living corals that live on, or around hard coral bottom near sand. They grow to 180 mm.
(Photo: Neville Coleman)
Fairly common at some Heron Island dive sites, Bedford's Pseudobiceros Pseudobiceros bedfordi has an easily recogniseable colour pattern and grows to around 60 mm. (Photo: Neville CoLeman)
This male Sixbar Wrasse Thalassoma hardwicke appears to be laying down asleep, but he is only faking, as it is daytime. He appeared as if stunned, the same as fish affected by cyanide poisoning, but is could not be, as he lives in a marine park.
(Photo: Neville Coleman)
Living in a commensal relationship with a Spanish Dancer nudibranch, this Imperial Shrimp Periclimenes imperator has assumed the same colouration as the pattern on the nudibranch. (Photo: Neville Coleman)
Growing to 70 cm the Blue Tuskfish Choerodon cyanodus spends most of the daylight hours patrolling over rubble and sand banks, on the search for molluscs and crabs that it feeds on. (Photo: Neville Coleman)
The Marlin-spike Auger Terebra maculata grows to 22 cm and lives buried in sandy areas between reefs, where it crawls along beneath the surface chasing down worms that it feeds on. (Photo: Neville Coleman)
POCILLOPORIDAE Pocillopora damicornis Warty Pocillopora Heron Isl. GBR