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 …
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.
Finally, we saw it!
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, …
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!
The first two dives of the season! 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 some of my favourite things!
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 …