Mar
23
Dive Number: 569 23/03/2014 Cottage by the Sea
Conditions:
Visibilty: 6m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 8m
Details: A dirty dive at cottage with surgey conditions. A Weedy Seadragon gained confidence in my presence enough to start feeding in the seagrass while i hovered above…good to watch.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Feb
22
Dive Number: 555 22/02/2014 St Leonards Pier
Conditions:
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 60minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Details: An operation from Melbourne where trying out there standard dress kit, so i took the opportunity to snap some bygone era dive photos. I say that using this gear around a pier is the best idea though. The hose was ripping life from the pylons, and trudging over the bottom was really upsetting the local stargazers.(but so was I!) Another good sighting was a very approachable Bastard Trumpter..the first time i’ve seen this species.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Feb
15
Dive Number: 552 15/02/2014 Steeles Rocks
Conditions:
Visibilty: Night Dive
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 90minutes
Max Depth: 4m
Details: A warm summers night and gentle southerlies made for a good night dive at Steeles Rocks. Trav, Karly and Nick formed one group and me and Chris formed another too see what was around at night around Steeles Rocks. Everyone had good sightings and at the end of the dive i even managed to find a Chris’s boogey critter, a Blue-ringed Octopus. Squid are always great fun to photograph too.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Feb
15
Dive Number: 551 15/02/2014 Portarlington Pier
Conditions:
Visibilty: 4m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 60minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Details: A macro dive at the mucky Portarlington pier. I spotted a seahorse on this dive too, but it was too dirty to get any decent pics.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Feb
2
Dive Number: 548 02/02/2014 Blairgowrie Marina
Conditions:
Visibilty: 6m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 70minutes
Max Depth: 7m
Details: A less than impressive dive at Blairgowrie, always something to photograph though!
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Jan
27
Dive Number: 547 27/01/2014 Whites Beach
Conditions: Surgey
Visibilty: 4m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 60minutes
Max Depth: 8m
Details: Very surgey and dirty at whites beach today with the swell just that little bit too high. We spotted a few Wobbies still including this one tucked away in a cave.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Jan
5
Dive Number: 540 05/01/2014 Cottage by the Sea, Queenscliff
Conditions:
Visibilty: 6m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 9m
Details: Ordinary conditions at Cottage today. A gorgonian and seastar where the only subjects of interest.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Dec
30
Dive Number: 537 30/12/2013 Blairgowrie Marina
Conditions:
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 80minutes
Max Depth: 6m
Details: I tried some new strobe positionings on this dive at Blairgowrie and was impressed by some of the results. Blairgowrie rarely has a shortage of subjects.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Dec
26
Snorkel at Point Lonsdale 26/12/2013
Conditions:
Details: A quick snorkel around the rock shelves at Pt Lonsdale.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Dec
23
Dive Number: 532 23/12/2013 Whites Beach
Conditions:
Visibilty: 2m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 60minutes
Max Depth: 9m
Details: Ewwww…2m of dirty water, surge and 2-3m long camouflaged sharks lying in every crevice. A good lesson in bouyancy control! Luckily no Wobbegongs were mistaken as a camera rest on this dive.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Dec
15
Dive Number: 527 15/12/2013 Blairgowrie Pier
Conditions:
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 70minutes
Max Depth: 6m
Details:
Camera Details: Canon 60mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
Photos: A nice dive as always at Blairgowrie. On the way over i stopped at Popes Eye to photograph some Gannets in flight.
Dec
12
Dive Number: 526 12/12/2013 St Leonards Pier
Conditions:
Visibilty: 4m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Details: Just a quick dive at St Leonards to test some of Sophies new gear. A brittle star was the only subject i managed to photograph.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Dec
7
Snorkel at Curlewis 07/12/2013
Conditions:
Visibilty: 7m
Water Temp: ??c
Details: Fairly quiet around Curlewis today…just photographed some of the usual suspects.
Camera Details: Canon 60mmm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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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.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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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.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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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.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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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.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Oct
26
Dive Number: 505 26/10/2013 St Leonards
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 3m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time:60minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Details: A tiny shrimp and a seahorse were the stars of this dive.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Sep
22
Dive Number: 502 22/09/2013 Victoria Towers (Boat)
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time:60minutes
Max Depth: 9m
Details: Took the inflatable out from Torquay Boat ramp, but again failed to sound up any good sites. Ended up at Victoria Towers…always nice.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Aug
9
Dive Number: 491 09/08/2013 St Leonards reef
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 4m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 50minutes
Max Depth: 4m
Details: Horrible conditions on the reef south of St Leonards Pier.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Jun
26
Dive Number: 479 26/06/2013 Aireys Inlet Creek
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 10m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 40minutes
Max Depth: 5m
Details: Finally got the strobes back and decided to go for an explore down at Aireys Inlet with Phil. We checked out the reef out from the outflow of Painkalac Creek. I think the sand had really built up in this area and half the dive was sand before we found some low profile reef. Some unique weed in this area, but not a dive i’ll be jumping to do again too soon.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm 2 X YS-D1 Strobes
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Jun
15
Dive Number: 476 15/06/2013 Portarlington Pier
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 60minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Details: While my strobe was away being fixed, I decided to try my hand at video which I may upload in the future. Most dives in April and May will be video with the occasional ambient light/torch light photo. Dive 479 is my first dive back with the camera.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm I-Torch 4
Photos:
Jun
8
Dive Number: 475 08/06/2013 Blairgowrie Pier
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 70minutes
Max Depth: 6m
Details: While my strobe was away being fixed, I decided to try my hand at video which I may upload in the future. Most dives in April and May will be video with the occasional ambient light/torch light photo. Dive 479 is my first dive back with the camera.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm I-Torch 4
Photos:
May
5
Dive Number: 469 04/05/2013 St Leonards Peir
Conditions: ?
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 60minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Details: While my strobe was away being fixed, I decided to try my hand at video which I may upload in the future. Most dives in April and May will be video with the occasional ambient light/torch light photo. Dive 479 is my first dive back with the camera.
Camera Details: Tokina 60mm I-Torch 4
Photos:
Apr
28
Dive Number: 468 28/04/2013 St Leonards Peir
Conditions: Aweful
Visibilty: 1m
Water Temp: ??c
Bottom Time: 40minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Details: While my strobe was away being fixed, I decided to try my hand at video which I may upload in the future. Most dives in April and May will be video with the occasional ambient light/torch light photo. Dive 479 is my first dive back with the camera.
Camera Details: Tokina 60mm I-Torch 4
Photos:
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