Sas
Contributor
Hello, anybody get out on the weekend for some diving?
I was out yesterday with my regular buddy, we'd planned J4 again but he forgot his contacts and said it would only be worthwhile diving if the vis was less than a foot
Anyway, whilst he drove to meet his wife half way for the contacts I did the dive (I did offer to sit it out but my buddy said no way! 
), had a really nice buddy I met on the boat so it was a nice dive and no one went OOA this time 
Tried to go inside but it was too surgy and got thrown around a bit so we left and stuck to the outside.
Anyway, my regular buddy made it back with his contacts and we did a night dive at Blairegowie. We have been hunting octopuses for months as we both haven't seen one, but my buddy said he didn't want to be disappointed again so we gave up our search. About 20mins into the dive I spotted a tentacle out of the corner of my eye and it was a sand octopus! Three of them in fact. Very exciting~~~ I signalled frantically to my buddy and he was photographing some dumpling squid so he said he was thinking "this better be better than dumpling squid" Anyway, here are the results of our nightdive and octopus discovering:
And we found some other critters too:
Smooth toadfish
Very inquisitive puffer - I have never had one chase me before!
Spot the decorated crab! I was staring at this pylon for ages trying to figure out what my buddy was pointing at
I was out yesterday with my regular buddy, we'd planned J4 again but he forgot his contacts and said it would only be worthwhile diving if the vis was less than a foot
Anyway, whilst he drove to meet his wife half way for the contacts I did the dive (I did offer to sit it out but my buddy said no way! ), had a really nice buddy I met on the boat so it was a nice dive and no one went OOA this time Tried to go inside but it was too surgy and got thrown around a bit so we left and stuck to the outside.Anyway, my regular buddy made it back with his contacts and we did a night dive at Blairegowie. We have been hunting octopuses for months as we both haven't seen one, but my buddy said he didn't want to be disappointed again so we gave up our search. About 20mins into the dive I spotted a tentacle out of the corner of my eye and it was a sand octopus! Three of them in fact. Very exciting~~~ I signalled frantically to my buddy and he was photographing some dumpling squid so he said he was thinking "this better be better than dumpling squid"
Anyway, here are the results of our nightdive and octopus discovering:
And we found some other critters too:
Smooth toadfish
Very inquisitive puffer - I have never had one chase me before!
Spot the decorated crab! I was staring at this pylon for ages trying to figure out what my buddy was pointing at
And 23C, chilly?? 
