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Solomon Islands Diving from nicolaoutdoors on Vimeo. UNDERWATER GALLERY ABOVE WATER GALLERY Right now, I’m suffering a bit of reverse culture shock after returning from the Solomon Islands. It’s pretty hard to integrate back into the city with the cars, people and the general pace of life and I’ve had many ‘what am I doing [...]

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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 [...]

photographs: Cradle Mountain Mount Anne Tasman Peninsula (underwater) Tasman Peninsula (land) Freycinet National Park Flowers & Plants movie: Blow Hole and Cave 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. [...]

The Eliza Ramsden was only one year old when it ran aground in 1875 on Corsair Rock, Point Nepean Reef. In its short career, it had made only one complete voyage from England to Melbourne, on to Boston and then back to England. Leaving Port Phillip Bay she struck hard against Corsair Rock. The ebb [...]

The Easter break was awesome : great weather, adventures, food, wine and company :) As I said, we stayed, ‘here’, Phillip Island, in a house with a couple of friends. There were kayaking trips exploring mangroves and the stunning surf bashed southern coast (thanks to some northerly winds calming the ocean down). There were cliff [...]

It must have been a good weekend because at breakfast this morning I couldn’t bring to mind ANY of my tasks or deadlines or ‘things to do’ for Monday :) Work last week was tough for both me and Ross so we deserved to switch off our computers and our minds for 48 hours. So [...]

The weekend was tightly & precisely planned around shoe-buying and working on Saturday and a slack-water dive and home, shower and change for evening dinner engagement on Sunday. So, when Martina called on Saturday evening to attempt to pursuade us to dive from the University club boat rather than the charter boat we had booked, [...]

Thursday we packed the car to the brim with camping and diving things and drove down to Queenscliff.

Sun was a diving day. Lonsdale wall on a 2pm slack (to flood) with MUUC.  We found an amazing part of wall to drop down on and great boat skippering (thanks Dave) meant we descended right to the top of wall at 18m with the drop-off (to 40m) just a metre away. Ross, Martina and [...]