Dive 430 – Whites Beach

By pfuller

Jan

Dive Number: 430 01/15/2013 White Beach

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 6m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 45minutes

Max Depth: 8m

Details: more wobbies and a new nudi.

Camera Details: Canon 60mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 429 – St Leonards Pier

By pfuller

Jan

Dive Number: 429 01/12/2013 St Leonards Pier

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 6m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 45minutes

Max Depth: 3m

Details: Saw a grass shrimp that i’d never seen before. Very hard to photograph.

Camera Details: Canon 60mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 428 – The Ledges

By pfuller

Jan

Dive Number: 428 01/11/2013 The Ledges

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 8m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 45minutes

Max Depth: 21m

Details: The ledges. Dark, surgey and a wobbegong.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 247 – White Beach

By pfuller

Jan

Dive Number: 427 05/01/2012 Whites Beach, Torquay

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 5m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 8m

Details: Took Chris and his Mate to see some wobbegongs.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 246 – Portsea Pier

By pfuller

Jan

Dive Number: 426 04/01/2012 Portsea Pier

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 8m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 40minutes

Max Depth: 5m

Details: No Camera, Just wasting some air.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 245 – Blairgowrie Pier

By pfuller

Jan

Dive Number: 425 04/01/2012 Blairgowrie Pier

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 6m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 8m

Details:

Camera Details: Canon 60mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Snorkel at Curlewis

By pfuller

Jan

Snorkel at Curlewis 02/01/2013 Curlewis

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 5m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 2m

Details: Found a cool little Short-headed Seahorse. Never seen them before here.

Camera Details: Canon 100mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 424 – Perpendicular Reef

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 424 30/12/2012 Perpendicular Reef

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 10m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 8m

Details: A splash around perpies. I found a couple of bits of metal rising out of a big sand bank…possible wreck??? I’ll keep an eye on this.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Die 423 – Beach 10B

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 423 30/12/2012 Beach 10B Queenscliff

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 8m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 50minutes

Max Depth: 10m

Details: Ray Day

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 422 – White Beach

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 422 27/12/2012 White Beach Torquay

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 10m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 70minutes

Max Depth: 10m

Details: I thought i’d try to find as many Wobbegongs as i could and see how many actually use this area. I counted 17 on this dive!!! Wobbies in gullies, wobbies in caves, small wobbies, bug wobbies, wobbies with jackos, wobbies with smooth rays.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 421 – The Ledges

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 421 23/12/2012 The Ledges, Buckley Park

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 10m+

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 50minutes

Max Depth: 20m

Details: A nice section of reef off Buckley Park with large ledges and gullies. A Banded Sea Perch was a highlight.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 420 – Elizabeth St, Pt Lonsdale

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 420 22/12/2012 Point Lonsdale, Elizabeth Street

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 8m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 50minutes

Max Depth: 5m

Details: Tried a new section of reef along the Point Lonsdale Strip. Its always current prone if you get out to far, but a school of salmon kept me safely in the shallows.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 419 – Perpendicular Reef

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 419 12/12/2012 Perpendicular Reef

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 10m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 8m

Details: A dusk dive with weedy seadragons.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 418 – Collendina

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 418 09/12/2012 Collendina

Conditions: ??

Visibilty: 8m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 8m

Details: A gully of port jackson sharks was the highlight. One looked like he’d just finished munching down on a cray.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 417 – Curlewis

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 417 09/12/2012 Curlewis China House Reef

Conditions: Ave

Visibilty: 6m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 3m

Details: A boat dive at Curlewis….a nice little spot.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 416 – Curlewis

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 416 09/12/2012 Curlewis – Fortress

Conditions: Ave

Visibilty: 6m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 3m

Details: A boat dive at Curlewis….very little around.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 415 – Collendina

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 415 08/12/2012 Collendina

Conditions: Lovely

Visibilty: 10m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 12m

Details: Great Dive..found an awesome little sea cave that was teeming with life. The highlight was a squid that i watched hunting. It had a lunge at a mado and then a small blue-throated wrasse. No luck on either front. Great to watch it change to a clear colouration to blend into the surface when above its prey, and then into a mottled maroon when it was below.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 414 – Kennett River

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 414 07/12/2012 Kennett River

Conditions: Clear but surgey

Visibilty: 10m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 10m

Details: A narrow reef runs straight out to sea near the river outlet. Its covered in bull kelp and crayweed and some vegetation unique to this stretch of coast. I explored the outer wall as far out as i considered safe and got to about 10m, but the reef kept on going. i didn’t investigate the inner reef much as it was too surgey. A dive i’d like to try again when conditions are right.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 413 – Spring Creek, Torquay

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 413 01/12/2012 Spring Creek, Torquay

Conditions: Looked Ok but Hellish

Visibilty: 5m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 20minutes

Max Depth: 4m

Details: I parked behind the surfclub and walked along spring creek to the beach. Conditions looked reasonable, but i soon found out it was far than good. The surge was relentless and rather than having a back and forward motion, it would surge and then curl through the many chunks of shallow reef. With poor visbility this was probably the most dangerous dive i’ve ever done. Luckily i returned unscathed, but i’m amazed i didn’t get smashed against the reef a bit more than i did. On the bright side, i found a nice little cluster of hydriods as a sheltered from the surge in a small overhang.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 412 – White Beach, Torquay

By pfuller

Dec

Dive Number: 412 01/12/2012 White Beach, Torquay

Conditions: A1, great vis and no surge

Visibilty: 20m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 70minutes

Max Depth: 10m

Details: Another dive at the Nude beach…8 wobbies this time around…unbelievable.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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Dive 411 – Bull Plateau,13th Beach

By pfuller

Nov

Dive Number: 411 30/11/2012 Bull Plateau, 13th Beach

Conditions: Lighting Storms, but dead calm water

Visibilty: 10m

Water Temp: ??c

Bottom Time: 60minutes

Max Depth: 12m

Details: Lighting Storms flashed over the ocean, but the ocean remained eerily calm. This site is the first main carpark past the bluff, and is usually very swell affected being hit by the brunt of the SW swells, but not today. This is a tough walk with big stairs, but wow…cool dive. A shallowish plateau of reef covered in bull kelp and crayweed. Then reaching the back at the drop off turns into a ‘secret garden’ of wonderful sealife. This was an excillarting dive…diving 13th always seems to do that too me. Unfortunately my run of camera bad luck continued with a flat camera battery.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm, 2 X YS-D1 Strobes

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