Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie

Great dive today with Brett, Mary Anne, Lauren and Graeme

 

Blairgowrie Wednesday dive

Blairgowrie

Wednesday dive at Blair, really nice and quiet , 

With Eamonn , one hour 16 degrees, rays, schools of fish   

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie pier

Easy dive with simon and craig. Nice dice and a good way to get the gear checked and settled before we start on boats. 

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie Pier

Dive with Simon today , almost on our own and the conditions were near perfect.

entered about 15 minutes after high tide with no wind and very flat.

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie

Nice dive with craig , craig testing his new strobe and lights and me the TG6. Very pleased at how the tg6 worked considering only lighting was from handheld video light. Pics shown with small crops only . But conditions were very good. 

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie

A great 80 minute dive under the pier , diving conditions are very good at this time of the year.

Dive:
time 80 minutes
temp 21c

Blairgowrie afternoon dive

Blairgowrie

Last minute dive at Blairgowrie, next few days dont look like divable conditions so it was today or never.

 And a very good dive it was with very calm conditions and a reasonable amount of sea life out and about.

Thanks Craig Morton!

dive time 63 minutes
water temp 16c

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie

Nice dive with Remi today at Blairgowrie,

Been awhile since we have done here, and the life is slowly coming back after the construction works, although sea life is still somewhat limited. Dive was about 3 hours before high tide, with current only becoming noticeable toward end of dive.

Dive:355
Time 80 minutes
Buddy Remi

Blairgowrie Pier.

Blairgowrie Pier

A dive at Blairgowrie, but changes with the pier extensions have seen sand dredged being built up under the outer wall, to almost level with the bottom of the sea wall.

But still an enjoyable dive and a spotted stingray for something different.

Dive buddy: Simon Kay
time 1.20

Sand now under the seawall, so now a shallow dive.

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie Pier

A nice lazy Sunday morning dive at one of the better piers in Victoria.

Although life was a little bit quite compared to other days, there were some spider crabs around,

Dive buddy: Craig Morton.
Time 70 minutes

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie Pier

Very Nice Saturday dive with Simon and Remi, testing out the new strobes and lights still so under a familiar pier was a good way to go. The conditions were good although the tide was running for the first part of the dive.

Note they have begun the rebuild of the sailing club so there is no direct access to the pier or toilet facilities now. Enter and exit via the beach.

Blairgowrie Pier

Blairgowrie Pier

Very nice pier dive today with Simon Kay, conditions were great with sunshine and very calm diving conditions. First dive with Aeris A300 CS dive computer.

Time 1:23 minutes
Depth  5.9m
Temp 9c

The New dive computer: Great display, good menus , but doesn't show Dive Time Lapsed on main screen, originally thought that it was how I set it, but alas no, DTL doesn't show on main screen just NDC and Air time remaining. For a lot of rec dives the more important element is DTL to match run times for boats etc.
Compass has played up (needed battery pull to get working again) and although not a major issue the wireless does drop out way more than a VT3.  Not sure it will suit rec divers with the need to push another button to read Dive time remaining especially when that is a screen with very small text. (why i bought a large display in the first place) .  The picture is actually on land and is pointing West not South as per compass. had tried before dive and was correct, fixed by pulling battery and re-calibrating. just re-calibrating locked up dive computer, requiring the battery removal.

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie

Good dive with Mary Anne , who was trying out her new dry suit , just try and guess which brand...

           Fairly normal dive for blairgowrie but went for a wander straight out from the end of the pier, evidently there is some old pier or breakwater there somewhere. didn't find it but did get down to 12  metres.  tried the macro lens rather than the fisheye today. and a big thanks to Mary Anne for picking up my sola light and arm that dropped off the camera and I didn't notice..

Mary Anne with her new dry suit

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie 

Nice dive with Lynne, Craig and Simon.  the pier was a bit disappointing today in terms of fish life, so photos a bit dull , but good practice with strobes and focussing, still nice to be underwater!!

Blairgowrie

300th Dive -Blairgowrie

Celebrating my 300th dive with Simon, Craig, JJ, Peter Mills at Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie Pier

Blairgowrie Pier

Dive at blairgowrie pier, one of my favorite dive sites. Today JJ was trying out his new camera with Reemie and I using the residual air from this mornings dive. 

Dive 299
Time 60 minutes
With JJ and Remi Charpenteau

Blairgowrie & Rye Pier Dives

Blairgowrie and Rye Pier diving

An ideal day of diving piers in melbourne.

Start at Blairgowrie see all the Nudi's and a blue ring octopus!  then lunch and refill at RYE followed by a relaxing pier dive at Rye with nice big smooth rays and sea horses, followup with a quick celebration drink at rye pub! 

Thanks Greg for organising!

Blairgowrie Pier with a new strobe!

Blairgowrie Pier.

With Craig Morton and Craig Slattery.
As always an interesting dive.
But even more fun trying out my new Sea and Sea strobe.

Dive 288

Time 1:15 minutes

Camera rig: sony rx100, Recsea housing, Sea and Sea YS-D1, Sola 2000, Ikelite pro2800  , UW fish eye.

(first use of D1 strobe, so some shots learning rather than interesting, overall very happy for first use)

Blairgowrie

Welcome to Summer 2014!!
Blairgowrie Pier

Great dive to welcome summer with
Craig +2, Lynne, Simon, JJ, Remi, Stephen

Dive 284

Time 75 minutes

Blairgowrie Pier

Blairgowrie Pier
With Craig to celebrate his new life!!
One of the best dives ever at this pier.
90 minutes dive time, and ever creature was out to play including 3 large Rays. (see video at end)