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.
Ross and I went diving on Saturday. I picked up my new suit from Paradise Divers and we drove to Mornington to dive under the pier. Visibility was exceptionally good (good enough for open water shots instead of macro) and the sturucture of the pier being circled by a large amount of schooling fish made …
Thursday we packed the car to the brim with camping and diving things and drove down to Queenscliff.
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 …
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 …