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 …
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!
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 …
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 …
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’, …
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 …
♥ 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 …
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.
This photo was taken last Saturday. I was very excited by the cute blob creature, even though I had no idea what it was (beyond being a nudibranch), because I’d never seen one before. Ross was kind of underwhelmed… he looked at it swum away, came back, took this pic of me and then hung …
Saturday, I had a lovely, lovely dive.