Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie Pier

A nice lazy Sunday morning dive at one of the better piers in Victoria.

Although life was a little bit quite compared to other days, there were some spider crabs around,

Dive buddy: Craig Morton.
Time 70 minutes

Blairgowrie night dive

Blairgowrie mid week night dive

Nice mid week night dive at Blairgowrie pier with Simon Kay. 

 Vis was ok but not great, and strong current at end of dive as tide turned to ebb, but still a very enjoyable way to spend a Wednesday night!

dive:
time:115

Diamond Bay Dive

Diamond Bay Dive

First time diving this back beach location.

Great dive but only do on a very calm day (northerly winds for a few days).
Stairs look steep but take it easy and no issues.
Enter from sandy part of Beach, follow either side out and in.

Lots to see on this dive, including 10 Port Jackson sharks (totally harmless)

10 Port Jacksons!

 Diamond Bay map

Dive Buddy Andrea McIntyre
Dive 327

Mornington and Flinders Piers.

Morning ton and Flinders Pier

A classic day of pier hopping , lunch and celebratory drink at the pub afterward.. What I love about Diving!  thanks JJ, Ad, Brit for a great day!

 Mornington Pier, Construction works are still impacting this site, but on a stormy day it was generally calm, and following the pier to the end,where you have depth you can safely go around the seaward side and explore the rocks, for rays, cuttlefish and sea horses.  pity my camera work wasn't better a lot of blurred photos.

Wall Dive Portsea

Wall Dive from Portsea - Boat

Nice wall dive with Lynne and Mary Anne. 

Mt Eliza

Mount Eliza,

Earimil Drive at end of this drive is a turning circle which leads down steps to the beach.

Beach dive 

With Simon Kay,

Nice dive, stairs are steep and long but good condition , maybe better site to dive at high tide on calm day. Reef is to the left at the small point and out toward the navigation buoy.
Beach entry is nice with depth quickly achieved, so no long walk across shallows.
Appears to be a nice quite beach area.
Parking at the top is limited so better done as a small group.
The Dive itself was at low tide on the urn , making somewhat surge a issue and limiting photographs and fossicking in the ledges much more difficult. Definitely a do again at high tide.

Flinders pier

Flinders pier with mary anne.

A great day of vis at one of vic best piers.  Dive 322

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!

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie

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..

Mary Anne with her new dry suit

Flinders night Dive

Flinders Night Dive

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.
Flinders had all the usual flinders creatures, but surprisingly not a lot of night critters you usually find under a pier at night. still a good dive anyway.

Dive 306
Time 80 minutes
depth 4.5

Blairgowrie

Blairgowrie 

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!!