The best snorkel site on this trip was Blossoms Beach, Bremer Bay: –
It had some brilliant terrain and great visibility there. There were lots of kelp and sargassums, and plenty of fish in the shallows, including Redlip Morwong, Dusky Morwong, Drummer, Moonlighter, Banded sweep, Western jumping blenny, Salmon trout, some wrasses of types we’re familiar with in SA, plus some we’re not: i.e. False senator wrasses, and another that is a cleaner when juvenile (I watched one cleaning a Scaly fin. I remain unsure what species of Scaly fin they were. They are the same shape as Victorian Scaly fin, but always very dark, almost black).
There were some nice turfing algae too. The water here was cold, I’m guessing 16 degrees C, but at Elephant Rock it was warm, maybe 18 or 19 degrees C, despite the weather on the day because it was warm weather for the preceding week and the shallows have only slow mixing with the open ocean.
This is Bremer Bay: –
A ledge there dropped from 1m to 3m where the water was crystal blue with 20m viz.
The last snorkel site on my WA trip was Elephant Rock, near Green Pool (or Green Pools, depending on local sign variations). I entered the water via a tiny gap between giant boulders, barely visible in the distance in this photo: –
This snorkel was mediocre due to lousy weather, but I loved the fantastic scenery. Also, you can just make out several Carnaby’s black cockatoos (endangered) flying by in the mid-distance.