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 …
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 …
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.
I’ve not dived since May, so finally getting back into the ocean again was good. This was a shore dive and also a marine-life survey (for Reefwatch Victoria) so underwater slates and cameras (for counting and identification purposes as well as capturing the aethetics) were in action. The dive site was Flinders Pier, known for …