Jan
29
Dive Number: 266 – 29/01/12 17.42, The Old Dell Jetty, Clifton Springs
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions:
Visibilty: ???
Water Temp: ???
Bottom Time: ??minutes
Max Depth: 2m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Hincksia blooms had struck the area and all pylons and ascidian life was covered in it. A short-headed seahorse was a good find.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS200 Strobes
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Jan
28
Dive Number: 265 28/01/12 ???, Rye Pier
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions:
Visibilty: 15m
Water Temp: ???c
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 5m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: After diving Blairgowrie i thought i’d give Rye a look. There were boats and jetskii’s everywhere and the beach was lined with people like a mediterranian resort. It was fairly quiet underwater though. A seal was a nice suprise and it suprised the hell out of a few snorkellers and swimmers that were on the surface.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
28
Dive Number: 264 28/01/12 ???, Blairgowrie Pier
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: 10m
Water Temp: ???c
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 7m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: A search for Tassled Anglers – fail. Lots of seahorses around and the pylons are always nice and colourful. There’s a pic of a decorator crab on one of the pylons…very hard to spot.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
27
Dive Number: 263 27/01/12 ???, Steels Rocks- Portarlington
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions:
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: ???
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 4m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: A poke around Steeles Rocks
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS200 Strobes
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Jan
24
Dive Number: 262 24/01/12 ???, SS Orungal Wreck
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions:
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ???
Bottom Time: 20minutes
Max Depth: 5m
Air usage: 30bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: On our way back to the boat ramp we nearly hit the boilers of the Orungal wreck, submerged only centimetres below the water. Luckily we saw it at the last minute, so decided it would make a good tank emptier of a dive. It turned out to be the best 30bar ever spent! My first sighting Eagle rays, and the area was teeming with fishlife, notably Luderick which are very rare around PPB and surrounds. A great little 3rd dive to top off a great day.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS200 Strobes
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Jan
24
Dive Number: 261 24/01/12 ???, Collendina Reef – Transmission Hill
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Surgy.
Visibilty: 10m
Water Temp: ???c
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 14m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: After diving the Canberra we headed inshore and dived a random reef off collendina. Nothing too special, and the surge was annoying.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS200 Strobes
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Jan
24
Dive Number: 26 24/01/12 ???, Hmas Canberra wreck
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Perfect
Visibilty: 20m+
Water Temp: ???
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 20-something
Air usage: 200bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: My first dive on the Hmas Canberra and what cracking conditions. The sea was as blue as blue could be and you could see the wreck from the surface. Chris gave me a guided tour and posed for a few bow shots.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS200 Strobes
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Jan
23
Dive Number: 259 23/01/12 ????, Ant Reef – 13th Beach
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ???m
Water Temp: ???
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 5-8m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Wow this was some dive. When you make it in for a dive along the 13th beach stretch of coast, it always feels ‘wild’. (and kind of dangerous). The terrain really matched the same feeling with masses of crayweed over loose rounded stones and boulders. Herring cale were EVERYWHERE in all shapes and sizes, with ‘stange’ looking magpie perch, and plenty of wrasse and a few snapper. I stayed under until it was getting too dark and sharky, and then on exiting hitting the beach, i looked along a seemingly endless stretch of golden beach, with a beautiful sunset setting across the water and just thought “I’m so privileged to be living in one of the most amazing parts of the world!”
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
22
Snorkel 22/01/12 ??, Point Lonsdale Rockpools
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions:
Water Temp: ???c
Bottom Time: ????minutes
Max Depth: 1m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Its been a long time between dips in the rockpools with the macro lens. Still not a string showing of nudi’s like the ‘old’ days.
Camera Details: Canon 100mm , SS200 Strobe
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Jan
21
Dive Number: 258 21/01/12 15.30, The Dell Jetty, Clifton Springs
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ????c
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Another strong southerly, back to the old Dell Jetty with the wide Angle on. I tried out a new torpedo and dive flag i made up which worked well, but is just generally a pain in the butt to dive with….and gets in my suface photos!
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS200 Strobes
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Jan
19
Dive Number: 257 19/01/12 ???, The Zen Gardens, Curlewis.
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ????
Visibilty: 10m
Water Temp: ???
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Back to the Zen gardens with the wide-angle lens on. Its such a pretty site…not much life, but the sponge life is prolific and colourful.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS200 Strobe
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Jan
17
Dive Number: 256 17/01/12 ???, Charlemont Reef, Barwon Heads
Wind: northerly
Tide: ???
Conditions: low swell
Visibilty: 10m
Water Temp: ???
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 20m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Chris and myself took the boat out to sound around charlemont reef. We found a really nice dropoff that turned out to be a 4-5m high wall running parallel to the shore. It was a really great dive, until we took off and i realised my camera was still on a line hanging over the back of the boat. It did a great job of waterskiing, unfortunately my ss400 strobe wasn;t as talented and went plummeting into the depths. If anyone finds a SS400 around barwon heads, let me know! ;)
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
16
Dive Number: 255 16/01/12 17.30, The Springs, Point Lonsdale
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: 10m
Water Temp: ???
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 5m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: A dusk dive at the Springs…always good for fish and it was great to see a large school of salmon come in after dark and do a few laps around me.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
15
Dive Number: 254 15/01/12 16.30, The Dell – Clifton Springs
Wind: Strong Southerlies
Tide: ???
Conditions: Choppy.
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ????
Bottom Time: ????
Max Depth: 3m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Howling southerlies so i just poked around close to the boat ramp at the old Jetty of the Dell. It was a nice dive, especially when a big squadron of squid came into feed. I was surrounded what felt like a militia of squid all very focussed on hunting their prey and ignoring me.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm, SS200 Strobe
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Jan
15
Dive Number: 253 15/01/12 ??? Curlewis Zen Gardens
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ???
Bottom Time: ???minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Took the boat exploring from the Clifton Springs Ramp and came across a nice little area of reef i’ve dubbed the Zen Gardens. Its a fairly barren rocky outcrop with sparse scatterings of sponges and ascidian. I only had the macro on, but i was determined to revisit with the wide angle to capture the zen-ness of this place.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm , SS200 Strobes
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Jan
14
Dive Number: 252 14/01/12 ????, St Leonards
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ????
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: ???
Bottom Time: ??minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: After getting bored, i headed out north of the pier for a bit of an explore. Always good to see Pale Octopus which i had some fun with in port processing.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm , SS200 Strobe
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Jan
10
Dive Number: 251 10/01/12 18.19, Portarlington Pier
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Milky
Visibilty: 4m
Water Temp: 21.2c
Bottom Time: 82minutes
Max Depth: 3.4m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: As silty as portarlington gets, i always seem to enjoy it. Some old tallship replicas were giving rides from the pier which looked nice from the water towards sunset. A few nudis around as always.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm , SS200 Strobe
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Jan
10
Dive Number: 250 10/01/12 14.10, St Leonards Reef
Wind: Strong Southerlies
Tide: ???
Conditions: Wind swell from south. Overcast.
Visibilty: 6m
Water Temp: 19.6c
Bottom Time: 41minutes
Max Depth: 5.5m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Nearmap showed up some nice reef to the south of St Leonards Pier so i swum out about 200-300m to check it out. Found some old bottles and heaps of swimming anemones.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
8
Dive Number: 248 08/01/12 10.10, Fishermans Beach – Torquay (Sundial)
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Flat but low vis
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: 19.6c
Bottom Time: 41minutes
Max Depth: 5.5m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Boring dive. Monotonous clay reefs covered in homogenous green seagrass. Little fishlife. I wont dive here again.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
7
Dive Number: 248 07/01/12 15.30, Point Lonsdale Town Reef
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Some current early.
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: 19.2c
Bottom Time: 137minutes
Max Depth: 5.8m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: I’d never been out off the township of Pt Lonsdale. It was hard to get a park around this time of year, but i took what i could get and took the nearest stairwell. I ended up heading out from the small breakwater and then headed south east. Towards the end of the dive, i came across a wall teeming with fish life. Including a blue-lined leatherjacket. Nice little dive.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
6
Dive Number: 247 06/01/12 13.45, Popes Eye
Wind: ???
Tide: Ebbing
Conditions: Strong Current
Visibilty: 10m+
Water Temp: 20.0c
Bottom Time: 42minutes
Max Depth: 10.7m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Second dive at Popes Eye. A nice day to get some shots of the Admiralty anchor.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
6
Dive Number: 246 06/01/12 11.01, Boarfish Reef
Wind: ???
Tide: Missed Slack
Conditions: Strong Current
Visibilty: 15m
Water Temp: 18.8c
Bottom Time: 37minutes
Max Depth: 17m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Myself and Chris were going to take the boat out, but Divevic called him into work as a deckie, so somehow i managed to sneak a couple of free dives. Boarfish reef was the first dive, and it was sensational. The water was very clear however somehow we missed slack and the current was running hard. Some really colourful life on this dive.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
3
Dive Number: 245 03/01/12 17.46, Eastern View
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Rolling swell and surfers out, yet looking clear and diveable still..getting dark.
Visibilty: 10m+
Water Temp: 19.6c
Bottom Time: 20minutes
Max Depth: 4.3m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: It was such a great day that i continued down the coast, yet it was getting dark and i only had about 35bar left. To the sane…not enough for a dive..let alone in unknown area on the rugged coastline of the great ocean road. But my new tablet and mapping software showed a reef running diagonally out from shore and i just had to check it out while conditions were flat. The reef turned out to be a series of rounded boulders with lots of fishlife darting around. A pity i only had a small amount of air left. I hope to get out here another day.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
3
Dive Number: 244 03/01/12 14.47, Urquharts Bluff
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Lovely crystal clear water but still some swell and surge.
Visibilty: 10-15m+
Water Temp: 19.2c
Bottom Time: 90minutes
Max Depth: 8.4m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: The weather was on the improve and the swell dropping so i headed down the coast and dropped into Urquharts bluff. It was ordinary the other time i dived it, but conditions were much better today and the water looked great. I parked half way down the hill to the carpark and headed out from there. Interesting boulders in the first 50-100 metres out, but since conditions where so good i continued out further and it just got better and better. The big highlight was seeing a couple of Sargeant Bakers, which i’d never seen before.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
3
Dive Number: 243 03/01/12 11.10, Point Impossible – Estuary
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: A bit of swell around…not perfect but diveable.
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: 20.4c
Bottom Time: 56minutes
Max Depth: 7.0m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Phil and Sandy didn’t have any air left, but i was keen to find the deeper section of reef mentioned in Ian Lewis’s shore dive book. I headed east south-east across the mouth of the estuary and found some more substantial reefs in deeper water. Vis still wasn’t good, but a couple of crays around and a few seastars.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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