Sleeping Sharks
A weekend of diving in Port Phillip Bay.
January Diving
A couple of dives in the bay on Sunday. Saw a new nudibranch, which makes us happy. It much much colder at depth that I expected it to be. January should be hot. Well, maybe not hot but the water should be more than 17C.
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 …
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 …
Wreck of the Eliza Ramsden
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 …
Phillip Island
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 …
Visitors
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 …
Dive Vic
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, …
Four Easter Dives
Thursday we packed the car to the brim with camping and diving things and drove down to Queenscliff.
Lonsdale Wall
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 …