The bluff, victor harbour south australia

The bluff at victor harbour south australia.

Saturday dive with craig morton and simon kay, at the bluff, 

Very nice dive with good depth, easy access and  plenty of sealife including leafie seadragons.

The leafie seadragon!

Rapid bay

Rapid bay jetty

A weekend away in south australia

Friday  and sunday (4 dives) with craig and simonat rapid bay jetty

Very good jetty for diving but no sign of leafie sea dragons and on the last dive on sunday with incomiing tide very little sea life at all with lower 

Point Linley Reef

Point Linley Reef

A nice night dive at a new spot for me, with Simon Kay, parked in the road carpark entered via beach, surface swim in front of boat ramp and then down and towards the point, then out towards the boat beacons.

Dive: 

Dive time 59 minutes

Depth 6.2 meters

Temp 14c

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.

Ricketts Night Dive

Ricketts Night Dive

A night dive after work, great conditions for night diving , flat seas, no wind, almost summer temperatures.

Entry tonight was near the point itself, from the beach which is a nice walk in , shallow as it was low tide but still ok and much safer than the rock entry points further north..  Great diving with Craig and Simon Again. Nice fun with an eel.

Fist time tested the new camera setup, nearly floats , but not much in it, but lots more practice to be done!!

dive time 60+ minutes
max depth 3.4 meters

Flinders Pier

Flinders Pier

A very nice dive today at flinders pier, with Matt Krumins, Andrea , Laura, richard and many more.  Good clear vis , clam waters and lots of weedy seadragons .

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.

Foggy Reef

Foggy Reef

A great dive today in the most calm conditions ever.

Although vis was ok it was not as good as I have seen at Foggy Reef, and with a reasonable current flowing for most of the dive it almost became a drift dive.  All the usual wall coral and creatures, didn't see the seals that were playing on the surface when we arrived .

Dive buddy was Mary-Anne.
Time 45 minutes
Depth 30 Metres.

Party Point Dive

Party Point Boat Dive

Very Nice boat dive at Party Point, a wall dive with simon and Lynne.

          Camera was not working with the flash 100% , need to figure out what is going wrong.


Dive

Time 45 metres

13c

30.2 depth.

Simon and Lynne at the safety stop

Rye Crab night dive

night die at rye with Simon ,spider crabs and no camera.  which was tucked safely at home!