Sas
Contributor
Hello all. Had another weekend of diving today and have pictures again 
Saturday I went to Easter Bommie for the first time. About 26m depth and lots of pretty reef to see, temp is down to 13C so getting chilly! Was an ok enough dive but we were hunting cray and did not find any Also you could feel surge at 26m and I got sea sick on my safety stop even though we did it at 7m cos of the rough seas.
Then we did Rye Pier. It is just covered in the shells of spider crabs that have molted and there was no fish or anything at all other than a few spider crabs. Might give that pier a miss for the next while as it was pretty gloomy underneath. Great vis at 15m though! Did Portsea Pier for a short dive to use up the rest of my air. Lasted only about 25m But was nice enough, saw a banjo shark, lots of puffers (are they breeding or something? the whole ocean is swarming with them at the moment...) and a tiny crab about the size of a 20c piece that attacked my finger to no avail.
Today we did South Channel Fort which is an island with a Fort on it built in 1880 and now a marine park. Drops to about 12m but was nicer at about 5m. Was bad viz, and there was an OW course so very silted up, current was so strong in places I nearly lost my mask at one point. Towards the end it cleared up considerably and we ended up with 10m of viz.
After we did a night dive at Blairegowie and it was *awesome*. I think Blairegowie is my all time favourite shore diving spot. Saw so many things there: dumpling squid, sea cucumbers, nudibranches, pleurobranches, a few stingarees, pipefish, heaps of puffers, colourful cowfish, a seahorse.
Some pictures attached from Sunday anyway, it is our second time out with the camera so we took 320 photos but they were mostly blurry! In order: cleaner shrimp, stingaree, dumpling squid school, sea horse we found asleep I guess, short tail face nudi, a puffer (I love these so much!), short tail Ceratosoma nudi, and a fish I can't ID.
How were other people's dives??
Saturday I went to Easter Bommie for the first time. About 26m depth and lots of pretty reef to see, temp is down to 13C so getting chilly! Was an ok enough dive but we were hunting cray and did not find any
Also you could feel surge at 26m and I got sea sick on my safety stop even though we did it at 7m cos of the rough seas. Then we did Rye Pier. It is just covered in the shells of spider crabs that have molted and there was no fish or anything at all other than a few spider crabs. Might give that pier a miss for the next while as it was pretty gloomy underneath. Great vis at 15m though! Did Portsea Pier for a short dive to use up the rest of my air. Lasted only about 25m
But was nice enough, saw a banjo shark, lots of puffers (are they breeding or something? the whole ocean is swarming with them at the moment...) and a tiny crab about the size of a 20c piece that attacked my finger to no avail.Today we did South Channel Fort which is an island with a Fort on it built in 1880 and now a marine park. Drops to about 12m but was nicer at about 5m. Was bad viz, and there was an OW course so very silted up, current was so strong in places I nearly lost my mask at one point. Towards the end it cleared up considerably and we ended up with 10m of viz.
After we did a night dive at Blairegowie and it was *awesome*. I think Blairegowie is my all time favourite shore diving spot. Saw so many things there: dumpling squid, sea cucumbers, nudibranches, pleurobranches, a few stingarees, pipefish, heaps of puffers, colourful cowfish, a seahorse.
Some pictures attached from Sunday anyway, it is our second time out with the camera so we took 320 photos but they were mostly blurry!
In order: cleaner shrimp, stingaree, dumpling squid school, sea horse we found asleep I guess, short tail face nudi, a puffer (I love these so much!), short tail Ceratosoma nudi, and a fish I can't ID.How were other people's dives??
