Rye Pier

Rye Pier

A nice summers day and Rye will look great as it did today, Simon, Lynne, Sharon as buddies and a great day to be had. usual, park in front of pier, gear up and go,  use trolley if you don't like the long walk down the pier. First time sneaking out to the new reef, see photos.

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?