Sas
Contributor
Well I've gotten out for some dives lately and I HAVE A CAMERA!!!!
Last weekend on Saturday I got to dive with Underwater Ogre again (and burna and a few other buddies) and I had a great time. We first snorkelled with the seals which was ok... (somehow we ended up on a boat full of snorkellers...) They smell disgusting though!
Then we dived Pope's Eye and the conditions were great! We got to go around the entire horseshoe in what was a really long period of slack water. The current only picked up again as we were heading back which worked out well. There were tonnes of fish around and the visibility was great!
Ogre + a stingray
Big friendly wrasse
Pair of Old Wives
We then followed this with a pier dive at Portsea and I was trying out my gear for cavern. The surge was atrocious - pushing us forward 3m and back again and I had really floaty feet so ended the dive exhausted. There were some weedies and a few other things so Ogre had a good time at least, even if I was a bit uncomfortable!
On Sunday I had Cavern class in the pool and that was heaps of fun. We did lots of exercises such as running line, reeling in maskless and sharing air and our instructor would entangle us to make things more difficult. Then learning valve drills, anti-silting techniques, and so on. Really fun day and I am looking forward to Mt Gambier on Boxing day!
Me doing secondary tie off
Heading out of the pool cave
Entangled!
The result of my first attempt to reel in line without a mask - took 30mins at home to fix it later :blush:
Last weekend on Saturday I got to dive with Underwater Ogre again (and burna and a few other buddies) and I had a great time. We first snorkelled with the seals which was ok... (somehow we ended up on a boat full of snorkellers...) They smell disgusting though!
Then we dived Pope's Eye and the conditions were great! We got to go around the entire horseshoe in what was a really long period of slack water. The current only picked up again as we were heading back which worked out well. There were tonnes of fish around and the visibility was great!
Ogre + a stingray
Big friendly wrasse
Pair of Old Wives
We then followed this with a pier dive at Portsea and I was trying out my gear for cavern. The surge was atrocious - pushing us forward 3m and back again and I had really floaty feet so ended the dive exhausted. There were some weedies and a few other things so Ogre had a good time at least, even if I was a bit uncomfortable!
On Sunday I had Cavern class in the pool and that was heaps of fun. We did lots of exercises such as running line, reeling in maskless and sharing air and our instructor would entangle us to make things more difficult. Then learning valve drills, anti-silting techniques, and so on. Really fun day and I am looking forward to Mt Gambier on Boxing day!
Me doing secondary tie off
Heading out of the pool cave
Entangled!
The result of my first attempt to reel in line without a mask - took 30mins at home to fix it later :blush: