I’m really enjoying my new dry suit – so nice to hop in for a dive and come out dry :) I thought it would be another dive with no nudibranchs, but found a cute little orange Discodoris on a pile near the end of the dive. These usually very difficult to spot as impossible …
The March of the Spider Crabs from nicolaoutdoors on Vimeo. Video: A massing of thousands of Spider Crabs filmed underwater close to the Blairgowrie Marina, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. They do this somewhere along this coast towards the end of every summer but nobody knows what they are doing or why they are doing it … …
Blairgowrie is usually a Nudibranch Wonderland, but on this Sunday morning dive we didn’t see any at all. We did see many, many big-bellied seahorses, a lovely orange leatherjacket that I have never seen before and, on the way back to shore, hundreds and hundreds of spider-crabs (video soon).
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.
Since I received a new dive light for Christmas, have a 2 minute video of some of the wonderful creatures that swim about at night!
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.
On Saturday we planted 30 trees
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 …
Saturday, I had a lovely, lovely dive.