Dive Number: 113 13/12/10 19.06 Portarlintgton Pier
Wind: 15knot SE’s
Tide: 2.5hours before 0.84 high tide at Geelong
Conditions: Dirty as usual for port pier. Calm though.
Visibilty: 3m
Water Temp: 20c
Bottom Time: 105 minutes
Max Depth: 3.0m
Air usage: 70bar/1000psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: I just got Ian Lewis’s shore dives of victoria book and he described Portarlington pier as the best dive on the peninsula. It suprised me since it can be the muckiest dive you’ll ever do, but it always does turn up some interesting critters. On this dive, i stopped to get photograph some blennies, and a Seahorse just casually floated past my head and attached itself to the ascidian that the blennies i was photographying were hiding amongst. Usually seahorses dont behave around me, always hiding in weeds, or in awkward positions or current/surge making photos difficult, but this guy posed brilliantly, even moving slowly in midwater. Typically though, i had the wrong lens on..my 100mm macro, so i could only manage some portraits. There were also a few Polycera Hedgepathi nudi’s around and a newbie for me over this side, Tamja sp.
Camera Details: Tokina 100mm , single SS200 strobes
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