Aussie Diving 15 to 31 March, 2010

[Gudge]

We had a good day yesterday, first two dive day in a long time (and neither of them on Bundegi Reef ), near perfect conditions (halfway decent visibility would have made it perfect), the warm water has turned up at last and I got to use my new Nauticam 7D housing for the first time (Awesome housing, best I've ever used). I was shooting with 10-17 and 4" Zen dome and spent most of the two dives chasing schools of fish. Here's a few of my favourites:

And the obligatory nudi:

 

[Sas]

Hi, I've gotten out for a bunch of dives lately. Midweek dive last week at a new site. I loaned all my single set to a friend so he could join us and ended up diving a 2.7m site in my twins Long walk too! Oh and they broke... (fixed now tho). Should've brought my snorkel instead! It was lovely viz though and lots to see.

Yesterday I did a boat dive to Ripbank, a site I have been meaning to check out for ages and ages. It's a wall dive, max depth 60m. We went down to about 33m and worked our way back up the wall. Was quite surgy but we had fantastic visibility. Then did an hour under Portsea Pier before heading to the dive shop for some snacks and socialising. Here are some photos:

Garfish, don't often see them as they hang out on the surface

Tiny squid

Pipefish - these were everywhere, if you stared at the sea grass long enough you would see some moving

Sea spider

Blue Devil

Puffer being cleaned

Cuttle under a ledge - you can see the zoanthids too, the whole wall was covered with them plus colourful sponges and corals. The colour down here is just amazing on some of the walls

 

[tome]

great shots!!

 

[Sas]

New thread is up for April:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/australia/330127-aussie-diving-1-15-april-2010-a.html