nicolaoutdoors

It seemed like forever since our last dive. A winter of snowplay and a spring of climbing had somehow almost erased the memory how wonderfully relaxing floating underwater looking at fish can be. We had a nice, leisurely dive at Flinders on Saturday. We only had half a tank of air left from last season, [...]

A few photos from recent dives. And, since I received a new dive light for Christmas, a 2 minute video of some of the wonderful creatures that swim about at night! //

The first two dives of the season! A few weeks ago now but I hadn’t got around to getting them online as I was too busy identifying and playing with them. Blairgowrie is nudibranch wonderland. Practically every time we dive there, I see a species I haven’t seen before. This is good because nudibranchs are [...]

This weekend was really warm (around 38C). Sunday moring, we decided sea breezes would be best and went for a fishing (with snorkeling to cool off) trip with Ross’s brother out on the bay. We had (mostly) pretty exciting fishing and landed several snapper but all were just slightly too small for keeping. We ended [...]

On Sunday we went diving at Mornington, a smallish town and nameskae of the Mornington Peninsula. The coast there is pretty. Underwater, conditions were average. There was still a lot of suspended material in the water, maybe from the strong northerlies last week. We descended just close to stern of the enormous Skandia ‘Wild Thing’, [...]

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 [...]

I enjoy fishing but Sunday morning I saw some of the side-effects and I didn’t feel so good about it. We were diving at Rye … … (which we had meant to do as a night dive the previous evening but TORRENTIAL rain made setting up equipment a less fun prospect, not to mention the [...]

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, [...]

♦ look, look they’re coming right beneath us! ♥ oh, I love dolphins so much , they make everybody happy :) ♦ ooo, they’re so close I can see it’s eye! Look, it’s eye! ♥ it’s so exciting! :) look at the tails come right out they’re diving down!! ♦ ooo, did that one just [...]