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)

Mornington Pier

Mornington Pier Dive

- Normal conditions for the pier, vis only so so. 

- Fishermen plentiful 

- Started the dive with a semi drift on the outgoing tide around to the point, very nice way to avoid the lines, finished back to the top of the pier and then down.

Blairgowrie fish count

A day at Blairgowrie for fish count day.
But lots of great sights in very good conditions

EX HMAS Adelaide

Ex HMAS Adelaide
Terrigal NSW
a very nice bayside town with lot of other diving around but this weekend was all about the Adelaide.
Only down months , life and growth is is limited
But site is an easy 5 minute boat ride, Terrigal dive very helpful
A few camera issues limited photos and video work. Video is reasonable

The isis, wirraway, Uralba

The trip departed on Seadragon, from Frankston Pier at 1 pm ish and from here it is not far to the first dive site. The dive sites are the Isis yacht wreck in 10m,  the second dive a Wirraway Plane wreck in 18-20m and the third the Uralba wreck – an auxiliary minefield tender, in 14-18m.


Dives really to do once , experience what the top of the bay is like so you can then enjoy diving toward the heads, but know you have at least done it once. The wrecks are not that great with the plane wreck almost totally un recognizable.
But as they it half about the diving and half about the company and the company was great! 

Catherdral Reef

Cathedral Reef

With Lynne and Bruce, a boat dive with dive vic.

A part of the lonsdale wall system toward the heads on the geelong side.

Like most of the wall dives there is plenty to see,

Blairgowrie Pier

Blairgowrie Pier Dive
Another great dive at one of the best piers in Melbourne
trying our new video light while peter tried out new side mounts

New camera setup is
Canon s95 with Ikelite af35 as strobe and Ikelite 2800 as video lite.

Coogee Wreck and portsea pier

Coogee Wreck Dive
One of the grave yard ships, but at the start so a short trip after passing through the heads
Laying in 32 meters the dive is a nice easy wreck dive, but like all dives in the area if it has rained over the few days beforehand river runoff can reduce vis. and like all through the head dives better to do on a calm day.
Two major parts of the wreck the bow and stern with boilers, no penetration is possible.

Flinders

Flinders
Another great day of diving, Flinders for a start and then devils drop off boat dive. Vis on both was lower than expected but still good.
blue devil fish were good at devils drop off with plenty else to see, one of the better spots on the wall.

Video is of Flinders.