Mornington pier

Mornington Pier

With Lynne and Craig, good dive on a very nice day under the pier.

Easy dive , entry via giant stride, ladder exit (or use ledge at start of pier

 to drop gear for easier exit),  stick to under pier and around outside rock wall, end of pier is now fishing free due to break in pier so improves dive and fish numbers. Didn't see any cuttle fish that can be found on the outside rock wall back toward shore.

Rickets Point (surf club end)

Rickets point

With Simon, nice night dive at the surf club end

Mordialloc Pier

Mordialloc Pier

With JJ and the Portuguese camera crew. A fun day even though the diving was average due to high winds and poor vis.

Blairgowrie pier

Blairgowrie Pier

with Craig and Simon , one of the best pier dives I have ever done, great conditions , vis and sea life

Devils Drop Off

Devils Drop Off

A very nice part of the wall system in port phillip bay.   shot line sits in 18m with a wall extending past 40 meters, great variety of fish , and plant life.  Today vis was on of the best we have had on the wall, with a good slack water dive this was one of the easiest dives ever.

Buddies: Andrea and Lynne. 

Mornington Pier

Mornington Pier

With Lynne. nice lazy pier dive, good vis for mornington ,

Kavieng PNG

Kavieng PNG diving holiday

Sony RX100 1st dive

1st dive with Sony RX100 camera

This is the first dive with my new sony rx100. configuration is:

• Sony RX100
• Recsea Camera housing
• Ikelite Af35 flash
• (fitted sync cord cover to recsea as if to fit sync cord , and the flash still works without the sync cord using the af35 normal sensor , so a very nice neat setup for flash)
• Ikelite pro 2800 video lite

Bought the camera as the compact size , large sensor promised to be a  just what i wanted in a camera.

Highly portable yet taking reasonable quality shots, with good dof etc.

The shots on land have been excellent and the shots from this first dive are outstanding (considering first dive and i am very much an amateur)

first things, the setup worked well, fits nicely in hand without being too big, (mounted video battery on bcd) 

speed and ability to deal with low light was very good, although i did use flash for most, but had to dial down compared to s95 i used to use.)

Video was excellent (see sample at bottom) as was the ability to take a still during video recording), can see the difference the bigger sensor and 20 meg pixels vs 10 on s95 make.

Next is the i-dive fish eye and macro lens to try out. 

Note: conditions at Blairgowrie were good , but still reasonable amount of silt in water

note some images more for camera than interesting.

Night Dive Mordi

Night Dive at Mordi Pier 

with Craig and JJ

Mordi has been cleaned up, nice dive tonight!

 Ok can you see me in the next photo?

Ricketts night dive

Night dive at ricketts
with Craig Morton

Flinders Pier

Flinders Pier
Nice day Low Vis

 

Sat Night Diving

Sat night dive at Blairgowrie

with Simon and Craig

Lonsdale wall

A wall dive but for the first time in months, not one photo was worth it.

Buddies Craig Morton and Andrea McIntyre

so video included only so my dive log remains in tact.

Rye pier and spider crabs

RYE Pier
with the spider crabs




these crabs show up in great numbers for a few days molt and i assume mate and then go

Lonsdale arches - wall dive

Lonsdale Arches22nd April 2012
Another part of the wall , a wonderful part of the port Phillip Bay

 

Annual easter egg hunt - Rye pier

The annual AOS club Easter Egg dive

Rye Pier

An Egg!!!! Winner!

Flinders pier

Flinders Pier

With Lynne and Peter (freediving)
Another great dive on one of the best pier sites
Today was rays, dragons, sharks, and plenty of other critters

Rye Pier

RYE Pier
A great realaxing dive, with a good variety of sea life
excellent for training or refresher dives or simply enjoying.
Todays dive included seahorses , rays , birds crabs, blemmies and lots of fish.
Dive Buddies JJ, Andrea and Peter


ok often think diving is like flying maybe this bird does too!

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie 
with Craig and Simon
still a great place to dive.


 

Sat diving Grotto and Rye

Saturday diving
A great day of diving with Lynne, Simon and Craig
First dive the grotto on lonsdale wall, the afternoon a lazy rye dive with almost perfect conditions

Flinders Pier

Flinders Pier Dive
(proving that when the bay is blown out, there maybe still a dive to be had)
Everything was out to play and so was every diver!

Blairgowrie with JJ

Blairgowrie Pier
Another great dive on a nice calm summers day
Buddy is JJ and entry is from the pier rather than beach
so we can spend more time on the breakwater

Portsea Pier

Portsea Pier

A good pier that offers a good way to use up residual air after a boat dive, plenty to see from seadragons to rays. Easy accesss via the pier and walkway,  don't forget the portsea pub for lunch afterward.

Castle Rock

Castle Rock
Just outside the heads past lonsdale arches

Nice dive 18m with a couple of bommies filled with fish life , including Weedy Sea Dragons, Rays and Crays.
Day was a bit too rough for a totally enjoyable dive, and the shallow depths tends to still feel the surface wave actions.

Scantum Reef

Scantum reef
(wall boat dive )
A very good deeper dive (20-30 meter range) along the lonsdale wall
Lot of soft coral, variety of fish life and interesting rock formations including swim throughs
Day was terrific for  diving with good vis 19c water and little wave action on the surface.

Lynne 

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie
A great dive full of seahorses and fish.

Flinders

Flinders Pier
7th Jan 2012
Another good day for diving Flinders
still full of Seadragons , fish and stingrays

50th birthday dive -Portsea

Portsea Hole
(50th birthday dive)
Portsea hole a nice little boat dive just off the Portsea pier.
(too rough for planned wall dive)
depths start at 15 meters down to 25 meters or sand after that)
Good sponges and variety of fish,
Vis can sometimes be varied but today was very good 15m.
(With a very sandy bottom a little disturbance can introduce lots of sediment to deal with in photos)