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 …
On Saturday I participated in another ‘Reefwatch’ underwater survey. It was at our usual site, but this time we saw much better fish life than the previous dive. In fact we saw several species I have never seen before. One of the prettiest sights was a huge Eagle Ray ‘flying’ along at quite a clip …
Who liked sports at school? I didn’t. I went to one of those stupid schools that believed in competitions and playing in your school colours etc. etc. bullshit etc. and everyone else was invisible. Every thing we played or learned to play was with the aim of competing. Not fitness or enjoyment. Everyone who couldn’t …
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, …
On Dec 12th we flew from Melbourne to Brisbane, Brisbane to Honiara (Solomon Islands) and Honiara to Santo (Vanuatu). The airport at Santo is one small building and nicer and clener than the airport in Honiara. Outside a giant sculture of a pig tusk, the symbol of Santo, stands in the sunshine. Our hotel …
Saturday morning I dived to count fish, part of the Great Victorian fishcount. It was a good day to be by the ocean: in the city it reached 37C and smoke from the bush-fires was oppressive, pushed in by a scorching north wind. Even at the beach we could hardly see the next peninsula across …
♥ did you write your blog? ♥ not yet ♥ well remember to put that it was an adventure… First visit (for me) to a site called ‘Cottage by the Sea’. A series of rocky reefs 50ish metres from the beach. Not deep but exposed. Waves, surge, current and a narrow break in the inner …
Last Saturday we dived the pier at Flinders. It was a Reefwatch dive, so counting sea-life for the Reefwatch Project at the Melbourne Museum was the main reason for the dive. But the visibility was amazing, making perfect conditions for non-macro photos of the pier structure.
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.