Aussie diving Jan 20th to Jan 31st

[shoredivr]

Hey, bowlofpetunias, good photo essay of Shi*rock dive entry! Also great fish and nudi shots...what we see here are usually Zebra mussels, an invasive species that smothers everything...

Zebra Mussels pictures and facts of an invasive species | SeaPics.com

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My favourite, the shopping cart left in the lake for a few months covered in zebras.

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*edit Melbourne just made the news here in Ontario in regards to the heatwave and bush fires. Stay cool, you lot, I'll send you some of our snow.

 

[thanksforallthefish]

*edit Melbourne just made the news here in Ontario in regards to the heatwave and bush fires. Stay cool, you lot, I'll send you some of our snow.

sure appreciate that shoredivr

 

[downunderdiver92]

Haha I have only done one dive at Dragon's Lair and it was surgy with bad viz too! Nepean Wall looks good, so I am hoping to do more dives there, what places do you recommend along there? I went to 'Wild Side' on the weekend.

the Devils Drop off was another brilliant dive, abundance of fish life Also good for an easy dive is Portsea Hole.

Yea Blairgowrie is an awesome dive! I highly recommend it. It is packed with nudis at the moment, also seahorses, big stingrays and little ones, and lots of schooling fish. For shore dives I am working my way through this awesome shore diving book I have, there are so many more I haven't done yet We're lucky in Melbourne to have such good shore diving I think!

what's the book called? it'll be great to get the heads up of other shore dive sites.

 

[Sas]

the Devils Drop off was another brilliant dive, abundance of fish life Also good for an easy dive is Portsea Hole.

Oh is Devil's Drop Off on Nepean Wall? Well in that case I have done a few dives there before With Portsea Hole, it is a lovely dive site but I don't like to pay $58 for a boat to take me basically a couple of hundred metres off shore so I only really dive there as a last resort. Maybe I should borrow a kayak or something like that, it would be an easy offshore site to get to with a kayak! My first boat dive was at Portsea Hole actually

what's the book called? it'll be great to get the heads up of other shore dive sites.

It is called "Shore Dives of Victoria" by Ian Lewis. $27 from Scuba Doctor shop, not sure where else it is sold. It is an awesome book, highly recommend to anybody who does shore diving. It tells you what kind of weather you need for good dives too, which is also really helpful.

Well, last night I got out for a dive at Mornington Pier though I notice there is an EPA warning out now about that site :shocked2::shocked2: High bacterial levels :depressed: I spent two hours under the pier yesterday so I hope I don't get any weird rashes or diseases :\ I wish they'd put signs up or something! The dive was actually awesome though We saw three cuttlefish, two blue rings and one big Maori octopus. Also tonnes of fish. I forgot my camera at the start and realised 5mins in when I wanted to take a picture but a friend of ours was on the pier taking photos himself so he went back to the car and got it for me, phew. Not in the habit yet of carrying it. I will put up some of my pics when I get home from work.

Our friend on shore got some cool pictures of our dive lights in the water. He was pointing the camera down through the cracks of the pier to film us and got a lot of weird looks and people asking what he'd lost.

 

[almitywife]

finally some pics from hubby and our Shiprock dive...

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[Sas]

I love the nudi! That is my favourite kind

I have some from my night dive last night:

A goatfish with its night colours on full bore:

Cleaner Shrimp. These are tiny and I have never gotten such a detailed shot before

Blenny out of its hiding hole - I have never seen one out of a hole before!

Jellyfish

Hulafish, they move fast and I took heaps of photos - this is the only one in focus

How is the weather in Sydney? It is boiling in our apartment, at least 35C as that is what the fish tank has reached now and temp is going up still in it. :redhot: No aircon at work so no relief tomorrow!

 

[shoredivr]

It is boiling in our apartment, at least 35C as that is what the fish tank has reached now and temp is going up still in it. :redhot: No aircon at work so no relief tomorrow!

Had that happen here (my house has no AC) two years ago in a heatwave....what I did was put a few ice cubes in sealed plastic bag, put that in the tank and that brought the temp down a bit...I had to monitor the thermometer though...

 

[Sas]

Had that happen here (my house has no AC) two years ago in a heatwave....what I did was put a few ice cubes in sealed plastic bag, put that in the tank and that brought the temp down a bit...I had to monitor the thermometer though...

Yea that is what I do for hot days on their own (I use frozen bottles of water), however in a heat wave it is too much effort and the tank temperature goes up too quickly so I have to be there constantly to watch it. So I have moved my axolotl into the fridge and leaving the tank as is

 

[shoredivr]

Into the fridge, eh?

This may help, just took these pics.

 

[stormysea]

I have no one to go diving with this weekend so its a no diving weekend....boohoo