Saturday, January 7, 2012

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


Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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)



Saturday, December 31, 2011

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.


Sunday, December 4, 2011

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



Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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! 




Saturday, November 5, 2011

Catherdral Reef


Cathedral Reef
With Lynne and Bruce, a boat dive with dive vic.
A part of the lonsdale wall system toward the heads on the geelong side.
Like most of the wall dives there is plenty to see,






Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Blairgowrie Pier

Blairgowrie Pier Dive
Another great dive at one of the best piers in Melbourne
trying our new video light while peter tried out new side mounts

New camera setup is
Canon s95 with Ikelite af35 as strobe and Ikelite 2800 as video lite.



Saturday, October 22, 2011

Coogee Wreck and portsea pier


Coogee Wreck Dive
One of the grave yard ships, but at the start so a short trip after passing through the heads
Laying in 32 meters the dive is a nice easy wreck dive, but like all dives in the area if it has rained over the few days beforehand river runoff can reduce vis. and like all through the head dives better to do on a calm day.
Two major parts of the wreck the bow and stern with boilers, no penetration is possible.