Anyway, that means you will see Lion fish, butterfly fish, etc etc. There are also lots of friendly blue gropers who want a feed of urchins. Plus Montague is home to the 'montague one-spot damsel' and there are literally thousands of these! We've also seen a resident turtle and on our last trip there was a manta ray (which no one believed until the video footage was produced!). I find there is not a lot of life on the rocks (kelp etc) so to me it's a bit like diving in a rocky desert after Melbourne diving, but the fish life more than makes up for it. Diving is also multi-level so you can get a nice long dive - drop straight down to about 30m (it bottoms out b/ 30 - 40m) to try and see the sharks and then make your way back up the side of the island for the rest of your dive (it's not really a wall as such, just gently sloping). There are a number of dive sites around the island, so as long as the weather is ok for crossing Narooma Bar (which can be very dangerous) you can pretty much get in the water. Also if you are after a shore dive, you can't go past Narooma jetty where the boat leaves from. We did this as a night dive and it was spectacular - nudibranchs, moray eels, stone fish, octopus...I could go on and all in about 3m of water! This needs to be done on slack water though. In case you can't tell I love Narooma and will be back there again in Jan!
mel.b