Blue-ringed octopus, Rye Pier
Thursday night (Dec 29th) Ross and I picked up dive gear and headed down to the beach for the New Year. We did a couple of fantastic dives. Friday night we dived under the Rye Pier and saw heaps of seahorses, dumpling squid and sand octopus and also, the highlight of the week, a blue ringed octopus. The next day (New Year’s eve) was extremely hot and after I exausted myself trying on a few new semi-dry suits, we snorkled, jumped off the pier, wathed the rich kids with their jet-skis and lazed on the beach until it was time to go back to the beach house and drink champagne ;)
New Years Day rained hard all afternoon, but we spent an hour on the Portsea reef, where the highlight was a stargazer that wriggled its way to freedom from under Ross’s knee allowing us to get a couple of good photos!
Stargazer, Portsea
I also got a chance to try out my Christmas present (a rod and squid jigs). We caught three squid. The first two we brought onto Portsea Pier at the exact same moment… although Ross’s emptied its ink-sack onto his face before it hit the deck!! We stuffed the squid at home the next day with dilled rice and baked them in chopped tomatoes Greek style. Yum.