Nov
30
Dive Number: 523 30/11/2013 Point Lonsdale Pier
Conditions:
Visibilty: 7m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 6m
Details: A splash around in the Kelp at Point Lonsdale Pier, reef, and rockpools.
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Nov
30
Dive Number: 522 30/11/2013 Perpendicular Reef
Conditions:
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 9m
Details: The big suprise at Perpies was a heap of Sea Hares out in a sand barren section.
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Nov
29
Dive Number: 521 29/11/2013 Head and Tail Reef
Conditions:
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 45minutes
Max Depth: 20m
Details:
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Nov
29
Dive Number: 520 29/11/2013 Ocean Grove Reef
Conditions:
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 30minutes
Max Depth: 8m
Details: This was a quick splash to see if there were any Wobbegongs in the shallower reef off Ocean Grove. The vis was ordinary and it was very surgey. The highlight was an unidentified eel with a yellow stripe along its back. Unfortunately i didn’t manage any photos of it.
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Nov
29
Dive Number: 519 29/11/2013 The Labyrinth
Conditions:
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 45minutes
Max Depth: 22m
Details: Chris had recently bought a new DSLR setup, so we went out off Ocean Grove to check out a few sites. Not much around at the Labyrnth today, but great structure as always.
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Nov
27
Dive Number: 518 27/11/2013 Tunnel Reef, Point Addis Marine Reserve, Anglesea
Conditions:
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 45minutes
Max Depth: 20m
Details: Despite a great dive off Ingoldsby reef earlier in the day, i really want to sound out some deeper sites. One area looked great on the sounder sitting in about 20m and coming up to 14-15m. I wasn’t disappointed with this site, with lots of swim throughs and overhangs, and some great sponge life.
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Nov
27
Dive Number: 517 27/11/2013 Ingoldsby Reef, Point Addis Marine Reserve, Anglesea
Conditions:
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 10m
Details: I’ve been itching to get back to the Point Addis Marine Reserve…its got so much potential. The first dive was on the outer edge of Ingoldsby Reef. A lush shallow reef system that has a great diversity of algae. I encountered a crayfish just wandering around unprotected along the ground…only in a marine reserve! Towards the end of the dive i came across a piece of wreckage, presumably off the Inverlochy, although that is suppose to be on the shoreward side of the reef.
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Nov
23
Dive Number: 516 23/11/2013 Blairgowrie Marina
Conditions:
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 80minutes
Max Depth: 5m
Details: A great dive at blairgowrie. Loads of nudi’s around (inc two different species riding on a hermit crab) and my first ever sighting of a Common Shore Eel.
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Nov
17
Dive Number: 515 17/11/2013 Blue Moa Moa Arch, Poor Knights, New Zealand
Conditions: Ideal
Visibilty: 20m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 15m
Details: Blue Moa Moa Arch lived up to its name with hundreds of Blue Moa Moa streaming through the site. Its a small and shallow site, but a great place to kick back and enjoy the light play.
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Nov
17
Dive Number: 514 17/11/2013 Middle Arch, Poor Knights, New Zealand
Conditions: Ideal
Visibilty: 20m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 15m
Details: The Poor Knights has so much to offer that we had to do a second trip..especially with conditions like they were. This time around we were promised some of the more iconic dive sites…starting with Middle Arch. This site has a smaller cave off to the side of the main arch where you can breach the surface into an air pocket. Very cool to be able to take your regs out and have a little chat in the middle of the dive. Of course, i couldn’t capture the experience in photos..its just gotta be done. The main arch was very atmospheric too with large schools of fish, and morays and scorpionfish amongst the boulders. Truly a world class dive.
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Nov
16
Dive Number: 513 16/11/2013 Meditation Wall, Poor Knights, New Zealand
Conditions: Ideal
Visibilty: 20m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 18m
Details: Fairly similar to the 1st dive…not the big structure i was expecting, but still great diving. The skipper took me out to the point where there were lots of fish. Hanging precariously over deep blue water felt a little exposed, but it gave the sheltered nature of the main dive site a new element. All in all, it was a fantastic day out with a tour of the islands, dolphins and sun fish on the way out and even a whale (un-ID’d). Highly recommended charter – Dive Tutukaka.
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Nov
16
Dive Number: 512 16/11/2013 The Nursery, Poor Knights, New Zealand
Conditions: Ideal
Visibilty: 20m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 18m
Details: We struck it lucky with conditions, and our trip out the Poor Knights with Dive Tutakaka looked promising. Our first dive was at The Nursery. A shallowish site that didnt offer the structure that the Poor Knights promised, but it was a nice introduction with a largish OW/tourist-type group. There was still some nice swim throughs and some nice marine life around.
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Nov
15
15/11/2013 Okareka Lake, Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 10m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 41minutes
Max Depth: 2m
Details: We camped by the edge of Lake Okareka. On a morning swim i snapped a couple of shots. There some nice fresh water lakes in this region that would be worth checking out with tanks.
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Nov
12
12/11/2013 Pelorus Rover
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 10m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 40minutes
Max Depth: 2m
Details: On tour up through the South Island of New Zealand, we stopped off at Pelorus River. The water was reasonably warm and the water clear so the camera had to come out of the backpack and get its first taste of New Zealand waters.
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Nov
9
Dive Number: 511 09/11/2013 Portarlington Pier
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 4m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time:50minutes
Max Depth: 4m
Details: A PhD student from Melbourne University contacted me about sites containing artifical reefs structures near natural reefs. She asked if i had dived the reef balls off the end of Portarlington Pier…this was the first i’d heard of them! So i decided to check them out. The vis was miserable, and the reef balls were fairly uninteresting. Not much seemed to be inhabiting them bar a few small crabs, a couple of blennies and small biscuit stars. I may have to check these out one day when the vis is better.
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Nov
2
Dive Number: 510 02/11/2013 Dannevig Island, The Glennies, Wilsons Promontory
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 15m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time:50minutes
Max Depth: 24m
Details: This was the last dive of the trip as the weather turned nasty for the next couple of days. It was a great dive though. Lots of big swim throughs and caves. Unfortunately i had camera issues on this dive so no photos.
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Nov
2
Dive Number: 509 02/11/2013 Seal Colony, Andersen Inlet, Wilsons Promontory
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 15m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time:30minutes
Max Depth: 8m
Details: After the dive at Suicide Point (and giving up on the chase of a humpback and calf that disappeared off the horizon), we popped over to Andersen Inlet to view the Seal Colony. In the distance you could see the massive granite boulder island covered in black specks. As we got closer the black specks started turning into a landslide of movement as the seals spotted out boat and tumbled down the granite slopes into the water. They were so excited to have company and within minutes the boat was surrounded by hundreds of playful seals leaping and and peaking up out of the water at us. The numbers were truly astounding and the behaviour was priceless to watch. Diving with them was just as fun!
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Nov
2
Dive Number: 507 02/11/2013 Suicide Point, Anser Island, Wilsons Promontory
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 12m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time:45minutes
Max Depth: 24m
Details: Day two at the Prom and the dive clubs got the big boys out. What a mission beach launching these behemoths compared to the inflatable! We headed down to the south tip of the prom and into the Anser Group of Island on Alan’s boat “Freediver”, and dived a usually current prone area called Suicide point. We had dolphin, seal and humpback whale activity on the surface, and beautiful granite swim throughs and underwater vistas below. So this is what Prom diving is all about…fantastic! A big thanks to Alan for having me aboard and providing a great skipper, historical guide, and dive buddy.
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Nov
1
Dive Number: 506 01/11/2013 Norman Island Wilsons Promontory
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time:50minutes
Max Depth: 20m
Details: The Melbourne Cup weekend sees a number of Victorian dive clubs head to the prom to dive the granite islands. It seemed like a good time to get down to this mythical spot so i ventured down with the inflatable the day before the majority of people arrived. Not knowing much about the dive sites, we just headed out to the nearest island to Tidal River, which is Norman Island and picked a random spot to dive. It was OK, but not up to the world class sites the prom is rumoured to offer. The day turned into an adventure when we realised we headed back to the wrong beach, after a bit of second guessing we eventually found our way back to the campground.
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