Aussie diving August Week 1-2: Fri 1st to Thur 14th

[thanksforallthefish]

Well it was a bit of a saga We tried about 4 spots before we found one divable - it was our last resort, Camp Cove. A lovely guy from Sydney we met on the drysuit course was our driver and dive site guide! So anyway, we got a good 'above water' tour of all the nice dive sites. He took us to Bare Island first as he loves it but yea, HUGE waves so that was out!

Camp Cove was a lot of fun though - heaps of fish, we saw a large octopus, a little cuttlefish, heaps of leatherjackets, a crazy school of catfish, two GIANT blue groupers and a few rays. Viz was fine at 5m. And it was WARM. I was so hot going into the water, was about 15C, glad I only wore a t-shirt under my drysuit. I had to keep flooding my hood to cool my face down.

Some pics attached.
Bare Island - see the swell
Cuttlefish
My new drysuit! With its strangling neck seal
Me diving in my new drysuit!
Giant grouper - biggest fish I have seen underwater so far
What is this creature??? So odd looking.
School of catfish

That is a pencil slate urchin ... I used to call them baby sea mines.

Glad to hear you got a dive in ... at least you will know where we are talking about when we dive Bare Island now

 

[alcina]

I think we need a new week

 

[bowlofpetunias]

I think we need a new week

Naaawww we like this week!

 

[Sas]

Ahh pencil slate urchin, thanks for the ID! Actually I went to the aquarium today as well and got to see a lot of the creatures I had found on the dive so know most of their names now

But yea, will probably be back up in a few months to see my friend and sister again so will try for Magic Point or Bare Island then!

 

[almitywife]

....But yea, will probably be back up in a few months ......

Sas - if you can give me about 3 or 4 weeks notice so i can arrange my schedule... i think the SB Bare Island P club should do a official :sblogo: dive-together

 

[Sas]

Sounds cool almitywife! I'll let you know

 

[thanksforallthefish]

oops ... didnt mean to do this

 

[thanksforallthefish]

Sas - if you can give me about 3 or 4 weeks notice so i can arrange my schedule... i think the SB Bare Island P club should do a official :sblogo: dive-together

:sblogo:-P dive


what about those NOT in the P club??

 

[almitywife]

as long as youre not in a drysuit - you can always be a member of the P club!

 

[thanksforallthefish]

as long as youre not in a drysuit - you can always be a member of the P club!

TY TY TY ... but are you discriminating against dry suit divers now.

how do you reply so quickly??? .... do you have a bell ring when someone posts???

BTW ... bowl says thanks for splitting that thread ... she didn't expect you to do it last night after work tho.