Breathing underwater again

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, …

Portland

We had a great weekend at Portland, about a four hour drive west of Melbs. We primarily went to dive, specifically to see leafy sea dragons as we only get weedy sea dragons this far east. We didn’t see any but we saw so many other cool and unexpected animals! Staff at the Portland dive …

Phillip Island

Another Easter in a share house with our friends, Rod and Vanessa. We had hoped to surf on Friday, but the swell was huge and so we all took a walk around Cape Woolamai. Later we attempted a snorkel but the swell had stirred the bottom and I couldn’t even see my own feet! The …

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Snorkel with Jellies

This weekend was really warm (around 38C). Sunday moring, we decided sea breezes would be best and went for a fishing (with snorkeling to cool off) trip with Ross’s brother out on the bay. We had (mostly) pretty exciting fishing and landed several snapper but all were just slightly too small for keeping. We ended …

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Tasmania

  We left Melbourne on the Spirit of Tasmania and sailed overnight to Devonport, Tasmania. Arriving, tired but not (too) sick we picked up the groceries that customs disallows and headed to Cradle Mountain. Starting from Lake Dove we climbed Marion’s Peak and approached Cradle Mountain via the Overland Track. Spending only a shirt time …

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Northen Pacific Sea Stars at Mornington

On Sunday we went diving at Mornington, a smallish town and nameskae of the Mornington Peninsula. The coast there is pretty. Underwater, conditions were average. There was still a lot of suspended material in the water, maybe from the strong northerlies last week. We descended just close to stern of the enormous Skandia ‘Wild Thing’, …