Lonsdale wall

A wall dive but for the first time in months, not one photo was worth it.

Buddies Craig Morton and Andrea McIntyre

so video included only so my dive log remains in tact.

Rye pier and spider crabs

RYE Pier
with the spider crabs




these crabs show up in great numbers for a few days molt and i assume mate and then go

Lonsdale arches - wall dive

Lonsdale Arches22nd April 2012
Another part of the wall , a wonderful part of the port Phillip Bay

 

Annual easter egg hunt - Rye pier

The annual AOS club Easter Egg dive

Rye Pier

An Egg!!!! Winner!

Flinders pier

Flinders Pier

With Lynne and Peter (freediving)
Another great dive on one of the best pier sites
Today was rays, dragons, sharks, and plenty of other critters

Rye Pier

RYE Pier
A great realaxing dive, with a good variety of sea life
excellent for training or refresher dives or simply enjoying.
Todays dive included seahorses , rays , birds crabs, blemmies and lots of fish.
Dive Buddies JJ, Andrea and Peter


ok often think diving is like flying maybe this bird does too!

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie 
with Craig and Simon
still a great place to dive.


 

Sat diving Grotto and Rye

Saturday diving
A great day of diving with Lynne, Simon and Craig
First dive the grotto on lonsdale wall, the afternoon a lazy rye dive with almost perfect conditions

Flinders Pier

Flinders Pier Dive
(proving that when the bay is blown out, there maybe still a dive to be had)
Everything was out to play and so was every diver!

Blairgowrie with JJ

Blairgowrie Pier
Another great dive on a nice calm summers day
Buddy is JJ and entry is from the pier rather than beach
so we can spend more time on the breakwater

Portsea Pier

Portsea Pier

A good pier that offers a good way to use up residual air after a boat dive, plenty to see from seadragons to rays. Easy accesss via the pier and walkway,  don't forget the portsea pub for lunch afterward.

Castle Rock

Castle Rock
Just outside the heads past lonsdale arches

Nice dive 18m with a couple of bommies filled with fish life , including Weedy Sea Dragons, Rays and Crays.
Day was a bit too rough for a totally enjoyable dive, and the shallow depths tends to still feel the surface wave actions.

Scantum Reef

Scantum reef
(wall boat dive )
A very good deeper dive (20-30 meter range) along the lonsdale wall
Lot of soft coral, variety of fish life and interesting rock formations including swim throughs
Day was terrific for  diving with good vis 19c water and little wave action on the surface.

Lynne 

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie
A great dive full of seahorses and fish.

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!