I decided to go for one more days diving with the company I had done my PADI with (Scuba Iguana) and headed to a different place. We went to Cousins Rock and then round to Beagle Rock. The dives were amazing. I was still quite nervous, there were still others who kept swimming underneath me which is very unnerving as a new diver. But we saw some pretty amazing stuff. The first dive we saw a lot in the reef - a seahorse, moray eel, octopus, clam, sea cucumber, a few reef sharks. But the second dive was probably my best so far. I was feeling more confident and was relatively calm and we saw Hammerhead sharks. Which made me a little nervous again.... We were on a reef, kind of hanging onto the rocks and looking out into 'the blue' although not very far as the visibility wasn't so good. People had said there were Hammerheads, but I had spent a few other dives watching people swim quickly through the visibility until I couldn't see their flippers and then come back telling me that there was a hammer head. It is quite a surreal experience to see someone swimming back towards you after feeling stranded and a little scared, looking excited and banging their clenched fists at either side of their heads (the signal for hammerheads). So I knew, or at least thought they were there.
It didn't quite prepare me for seeing one, then another, then another swim past. There were about 7 or 8 of them, and they must have been about 10ft long. They came round in front of us a few times. They were only about 5 or 6 metres away and you could see their eyes. They swam past not looking interested, but they knew we were there, and could probably hear my heart hammering in my chest. We spent the last 10 minutes or so of the dive in the middle of thousands of fish. Lots of different types, including lots of Baracuda seemed to congregate around us! Diving has to be one of the most amazing things I have ever tried. And one I think I will be doing again. 
a seahorse a Sarah Paddick a White-tipped Reef Shark
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