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.
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| Simon and Lynne at the safety stop |
night die at rye with Simon ,spider crabs and no camera. which was tucked safely at home!
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..
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| Mary Anne with her new dry suit |
A mid week night dive at flinders pier with Simon Kay.Nice day with flat seas and no wind , too good not to go diving.
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!!
ok, so the last dive was so good just had to try it again. Today was a dive on the end of flood to high tide and the first ten minutes had strong onshore currents, so misjudged the slack by that much! A great dive though with Remi and Lynne, with blue devil fish, port jackson sharks, a huge cuttle fish, lots of angel fish, weedy sea dragons and just about everything in between!.
First dive at Cottage by the Sea, a beach dive site just outside of Queenscliff.This has to be one of the best beach entry sites in the bay, granted today conditions were near perfect, but the wide variety of life from blue devils to sea dragons and almost everything in between made it very interesting. (see maps and directions in read more section.)
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| Cottage by the Sea dive entry. Enter mear rocks and head straight out toward reef (darker patch near boat anchored). Nice wall system runs the length with lots of overhangs with plenty of life. |
A boat dive to boar fish reef, a nice reef area in port phillip bay, with Lynne Sullivan.Reasonable amount to see and at a nice comfortable depth of between 15 to 20 metres.
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.
Diving in the bay at the moment rocks!! Vis like never before, 19C water temp, flat conditions and nice easy currents. Combined with great fish life, cuttlefish, port jackson sharks, and of course the most amazing blue devil fish. Boarfish is a wide reef area boat dive via dive vic.
A boat dive on Foggy Reef, haven't dive this spot for years, and what a surprise, great part of the wall to dive, at the start of the wall, basically where it turns toward queenscliff, full of overhangs, gullies there is even an anchor to look out for (we didn't see it). Dive conditions were great. But a novice mistake with the camera (not extending the flash arm ) meant sediment in most shots were a big issue. But a great excuse to do this dive again soon!!
Portsea hole dive, a boat dive about 500 metres off the portsea pier, usually a training dive, but still not a bad area to dive especially if you want a short boat dive. Most of the action is between 15 and 20 metres. Sand is a bit of an issue but there is still lots to see in the nooks and crannies of the wall, including blue devil fish.
Dive buddy :Lynne |
| View of divers at 15 metres from 1 metre below surface |
Despite the name sounding very similar to a number of the wall sites inside the heads, this dive site is just outside of the heads and sits in around 10-20 metres with bommies being the major landscape features and weedy sea dragons proving the name.
Although a passable dive on a really good day , the location and close proximity to shore means on any sort of conditions it is simply a terrible dive site for a boat dive, with strong surge, low vis and generally uninspiring landscape, and especially as on this dive the shot line was on the outer rim of the bommies due to conditions close in.
One of the few dives that I will definitely try to avoid in the future as not worth the investment of a boat dive, I also do not recommend it as a dive site for OW divers, simply due to the nature of the dive and the general disappointment they experience when so many other great dive sites exist to grow their excitement for the sport exist. Diving buddy on this dive was Stephen , with group being Simon, Alicia Rick and Amanda.
A Dive Vic boat dive near the heads of port phillip bay, starting at 12 metres with a nice easy slope downward to around 25 metres. A great dive for both new divers and experienced with a diversity of marine life including blue devil fish, rays and lots of great soft corals, swim throughs and trenches.
