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The First Dolphin of Summer

Perfect conditions for a paddle from Portsea to the tip of point Nepean. Crystal clear water and light winds. A solitary dolphin breached the surface less than a paddle’s length away. It breached again once more for a sideways look at us and dived out of sight.

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Cape Schank

Down on the land by the beach, Saturday was all chainsaws and burnination of fallen trees. Sunday was tree-planting in the gaps and tending last year’s saplings. They are growing up into beautiful treelets :) After work, we walked around Cape Schank.

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Hairy Sea Hare

This photo was taken last Saturday. I was very excited by the cute blob creature, even though I had no idea what it was (beyond being a nudibranch), because I’d never seen one before. Ross was kind of underwhelmed… he looked at it swum away, came back, took this pic of me and then hung …

New Year Diving and Fishing

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 …