Aussie Diving 28th Nov - 4th Dec

[Sas]

Hello!

A new week for diving, I know fish and petunia found some interesting things already on their dive! Anybody else?

I am out tomorrow for some shore dives. No one was around last week for a night dive :depressed: so hopefully I will get a night dive in *this* week instead.

 

[bowlofpetunias]

Who is diving where and what are you seeing?
We did a double shore dive and found some interesting stuff
I was surprised to find a plastic drink glass "walking across the sand" being carried by an urchin.:shocked2: The morays were out in numbers (about 5) 3 of which nibbled my camera. Fish found a sea hare never seen one at this site before.

 

[Sas]

Woops! I started a thread too! Hopefully they can be merged.

I laughed hard at your walking cup

 

[bowlofpetunias]

The seahorses were there including a WHITE one.... anyone ever seen a white one before? It has some dark spots so it isn't a true albino but it sure is different. If it stayed in the white sponge you would never see it!

 

[bowlofpetunias]

Woops! I started a thread too! Hopefully they can be merged.

I laughed hard at your walking cup

oops I did check but you were probably working on yours while I was working on mine I bet Almity can fix it for us

 

[Sas]

The seahorses were there including a WHITE one.... anyone ever seen a white one before? It has some dark spots so it isn't a true albino but it sure is different. If it stayed in the white sponge you would never see it!

I have seen only one white one before so they are rare I believe! I only have dodgy pictures but have attached the best one I could find. The seahorse was upside down in a little plant.

I asked a mod to merge the threads or delete, whichever is easier I guess!

 

[almitywife]

great pics Shelia! so what was bare island like today? temps, viz ect.....

 

[bowlofpetunias]

great pics Shelia! so what was bare island like today? temps, viz ect.....

Viz was pretty poor temp was 17 to 18. I was in my sharkskin and found it a bit cold by the second dive. I seem to be ok at 17 but after an hour or so it gets too cold. When we came back and got into a thermo cline of 18 it felt wonderful. It was raining a bit and the wind was blowing made the surface interval a bit cool.
Well worth it tho. I really wanted to try to find the angler fish and the pygmy piphorses on the eastern side.

It was pretty high tide with a few moderate to largish sets coming in. No problem as long as you timed it right. It was washing over the ledge on the eastern side so we wound up climbing down the rock wall and swimming out and back on the eastern side to find the angler fish. There are some pygmy pipehorse on the eastern side too but I was too cold to stay out there searching too long. It took us a while to find the angler and the temp out there was mostly around 17 but Denis said his computer was reading 16.

THANK YOU NICK for the directions :yelclap: You are a LEGEND:worship:

 

[bowlofpetunias]

I have seen only one white one before so they are rare I believe! I only have dodgy pictures but have attached the best one I could find. The seahorse was upside down in a little plant.

I asked a mod to merge the threads or delete, whichever is easier I guess!

Thanks to Almity for that minimizes the confusion:blinking:

Nice to see your white seahorse. It seems a bit more speckled than ours. How big was it? PADI should offer a course on how to train the wildlife how to pose Hmmm would the fish get a P card for Posing??

 

[thanksforallthefish]

great pics Shelia! so what was bare island like today? temps, viz ect.....

Temps as bowl said ... 17 to 18

Viz ... dive 1 end of incoming tide .... about 7-8 metres
dive 2 start of outgoing ........ about 4-5
(getting back to the channell where there were 3 dive flags ie classes viz was about 2-3)

Getting in on the eastern side out at the point was possible, but we decided not to take any risks and get in from the mainland, even getting out there after the dive you were getting tossed around a bit.

On the West of the bridge it was quite an easy entry and exit.

Are you diving this weekend Almitywife???