Sleeping Sharks
A weekend of diving in Port Phillip Bay.
Sunday Afternoons
The Yarra River had been flowing from it’s source in the Yarra ranges through Victoria and out into the ocean for a long time before Melbourne grew up around its final stretches. Now it winds it’s way through the Eastern and Inner suburbs under roads and railway lines, flowing out though the docks into Port …
Sunday Morning at Blairgowrie
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 …
March of the Spider Crabs – Video
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 … …
Seahorses and Spider-crabs
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).
Australia Day Diving
Despite forgetting out dive boots (I had to dive in my shoes!) on our Australia Day day-trip, we had a great loooong (90 mins) dive at Blairgowrie and saw a couple of nudibranch species we hadn’t seen before. In fact, we saw 9 different species of nudibranch on this dive. We also saw a tassled …
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.
Tassled Angler Fish
Finally, we saw it!
Breathing underwater again
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, …
Underwater Christmas
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!