nicolaoutdoors

It seemed like forever since our last dive. A winter of snowplay and a spring of climbing had somehow almost erased the memory how wonderfully relaxing floating underwater looking at fish can be. We had a nice, leisurely dive at Flinders on Saturday. We only had half a tank of air left from last season, but it was plenty. Later, we dropped our tanks in for a service, ready for a summer of diving adventures :) Being ‘tankless’ on Sunday but still beside the beautiful, still and warm ocean, we kayaked from Sorrento to Portsea, peeking in at the millionaires bayside houses and snorkeled. My cuts and abrasions from climbing all healed up in the salt water and I remembered how special the ocean is. Sadly, while having lunch close to Point Franklin, we saw a group of people spear a medium sized ray and drag it ashore, still alive, to taunt it with their spear tips and throw rocks at it until it finally gave up thrashing around and lay black and glistening on the bright, wet sand.