Sleeping Sharks
A weekend of diving in Port Phillip Bay.
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 …
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 …
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!
Portland
We had a great weekend at Portland, about a four hour drive west of Melbs. We primarily went to dive, specifically to see leafy sea dragons as we only get weedy sea dragons this far east. We didn’t see any but we saw so many other cool and unexpected animals! Staff at the Portland dive …
Phillip Island
Another Easter in a share house with our friends, Rod and Vanessa. We had hoped to surf on Friday, but the swell was huge and so we all took a walk around Cape Woolamai. Later we attempted a snorkel but the swell had stirred the bottom and I couldn’t even see my own feet! The …
Northen Pacific Sea Stars at Mornington
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’, …
Reefwatch
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 …
Cottage by the sea
♥ did you write your blog? ♥ not yet ♥ well remember to put that it was an adventure… First visit (for me) to a site called ‘Cottage by the Sea’. A series of rocky reefs 50ish metres from the beach. Not deep but exposed. Waves, surge, current and a narrow break in the inner …