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, …
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 …
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 …
Thursday night (Dec 29th) Ross and I picked up dive gear and headed down to the beach for the New Year. We did a couple of fantastic dives. Friday night we dived under the Rye Pier and saw heaps of seahorses, dumpling squid and sand octopus and also, the highlight of the week, a blue …
Saturday morning we zipped down to the Mornington peninsular and called in on the fabulously named Doctor Fear (an s.c.u.b.a. supplier with all the dots) to drop off my faulty light. We picked up some native tree-seedlings (tea tree, moonah and sheoaks) and had a working-bee. And after reviving ourselves with sausages and baby-cuddles we …