Hey Sas, GREAT haircut - good to see you again.
As for what the Bay is like now that dredging has started up again...... Well the Queen of the Netherlands is currently dredging in the Heads.
We dived at Lonsdale Wall (which is very near where the dedging is happening) on Sat and the vis was not great -but that was more to do with the storm we had last week.
However, what was errie as well as annoying, was the continual thud, thud, thud, you could hear from the dredger. It was a sound that not only was loud and ominous, it also reverbarated throughtout your body.
Even at 40m down Lonsdale Wall, you sound 'feel' the sound.
We were lucky to be diving on an ebb tide - so all of the crap that the dredger was bringing up was quickly swept out of the bay. However, our boat did go through the 'plume' and it wasn't a pretty site.
We were hoping to dive outside of the Heads today, but 4m swell at the Heads prohibited our dive boat from leaving the bay -but that didn't stop us from having a great drfit dive near Boarfish reef, even if the vis was awful. And you could still hear the dredger.
I'm not going to be around for the next couple of weeks - so I won't be able to give you vis and condition updates due to the dredging, but it's not likely to get any better.
