Jan
10
Dive Number: 251 10/01/12 18.19, Portarlington Pier
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Milky
Visibilty: 4m
Water Temp: 21.2c
Bottom Time: 82minutes
Max Depth: 3.4m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: As silty as portarlington gets, i always seem to enjoy it. Some old tallship replicas were giving rides from the pier which looked nice from the water towards sunset. A few nudis around as always.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm , SS200 Strobe
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Jan
10
Dive Number: 250 10/01/12 14.10, St Leonards Reef
Wind: Strong Southerlies
Tide: ???
Conditions: Wind swell from south. Overcast.
Visibilty: 6m
Water Temp: 19.6c
Bottom Time: 41minutes
Max Depth: 5.5m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Nearmap showed up some nice reef to the south of St Leonards Pier so i swum out about 200-300m to check it out. Found some old bottles and heaps of swimming anemones.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
8
Dive Number: 248 08/01/12 10.10, Fishermans Beach – Torquay (Sundial)
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Flat but low vis
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: 19.6c
Bottom Time: 41minutes
Max Depth: 5.5m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Boring dive. Monotonous clay reefs covered in homogenous green seagrass. Little fishlife. I wont dive here again.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
7
Dive Number: 248 07/01/12 15.30, Point Lonsdale Town Reef
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Some current early.
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: 19.2c
Bottom Time: 137minutes
Max Depth: 5.8m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: I’d never been out off the township of Pt Lonsdale. It was hard to get a park around this time of year, but i took what i could get and took the nearest stairwell. I ended up heading out from the small breakwater and then headed south east. Towards the end of the dive, i came across a wall teeming with fish life. Including a blue-lined leatherjacket. Nice little dive.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
6
Dive Number: 247 06/01/12 13.45, Popes Eye
Wind: ???
Tide: Ebbing
Conditions: Strong Current
Visibilty: 10m+
Water Temp: 20.0c
Bottom Time: 42minutes
Max Depth: 10.7m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Second dive at Popes Eye. A nice day to get some shots of the Admiralty anchor.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
6
Dive Number: 246 06/01/12 11.01, Boarfish Reef
Wind: ???
Tide: Missed Slack
Conditions: Strong Current
Visibilty: 15m
Water Temp: 18.8c
Bottom Time: 37minutes
Max Depth: 17m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Myself and Chris were going to take the boat out, but Divevic called him into work as a deckie, so somehow i managed to sneak a couple of free dives. Boarfish reef was the first dive, and it was sensational. The water was very clear however somehow we missed slack and the current was running hard. Some really colourful life on this dive.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
3
Dive Number: 245 03/01/12 17.46, Eastern View
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Rolling swell and surfers out, yet looking clear and diveable still..getting dark.
Visibilty: 10m+
Water Temp: 19.6c
Bottom Time: 20minutes
Max Depth: 4.3m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: It was such a great day that i continued down the coast, yet it was getting dark and i only had about 35bar left. To the sane…not enough for a dive..let alone in unknown area on the rugged coastline of the great ocean road. But my new tablet and mapping software showed a reef running diagonally out from shore and i just had to check it out while conditions were flat. The reef turned out to be a series of rounded boulders with lots of fishlife darting around. A pity i only had a small amount of air left. I hope to get out here another day.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
3
Dive Number: 244 03/01/12 14.47, Urquharts Bluff
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Lovely crystal clear water but still some swell and surge.
Visibilty: 10-15m+
Water Temp: 19.2c
Bottom Time: 90minutes
Max Depth: 8.4m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: The weather was on the improve and the swell dropping so i headed down the coast and dropped into Urquharts bluff. It was ordinary the other time i dived it, but conditions were much better today and the water looked great. I parked half way down the hill to the carpark and headed out from there. Interesting boulders in the first 50-100 metres out, but since conditions where so good i continued out further and it just got better and better. The big highlight was seeing a couple of Sargeant Bakers, which i’d never seen before.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
3
Dive Number: 243 03/01/12 11.10, Point Impossible – Estuary
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: A bit of swell around…not perfect but diveable.
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: 20.4c
Bottom Time: 56minutes
Max Depth: 7.0m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Phil and Sandy didn’t have any air left, but i was keen to find the deeper section of reef mentioned in Ian Lewis’s shore dive book. I headed east south-east across the mouth of the estuary and found some more substantial reefs in deeper water. Vis still wasn’t good, but a couple of crays around and a few seastars.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
3
Dive Number: 242 03/01/12 10.10, Point Impossible
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: A bit of swell around…not perfect but diveable.
Visibilty: 5m
Water Temp: 20.4c
Bottom Time: 39minutes
Max Depth: 4.3m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Phils had Point Impossible on the todo list and decided today was the day. So Phil, Sandy and myself headed out from the carpark and to the west. It was fairly shallow all the way out with no significant drop offs. The shallows where very colourful, but further out didn’t eventuate into much.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
2
Dive Number: 241 02/01/12 14.25, Cottage by the Sea
Wind: ???
Tide: Flood
Conditions: Current
Visibilty: ???
Water Temp: 20.8c
Bottom Time: 91minutes
Max Depth: 7.3m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: After calling a dive at collendina, i headed to cottage. The bay was flooding, but i thought i’d give it a run anyway. It made for an exciting dive with a strong current running.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Jan
2
Dive Number: 240 02/01/12 ???, Collendina
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: 2m
Water Temp: 19.6c
Bottom Time: 8minutes
Max Depth: 3.8m
Air usage: ????
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: A surgey, swelly, low vis dive that i called off straight away.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Dec
27
Dive Number: 239 27/12/11 16.00, Curlewis
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty:
Water Temp: 20.8c
Bottom Time: 59minutes
Max Depth: 2.8m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: A dive from the boat at Curlewis. Not much around.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm SS200 Strobe
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Dec
27
Dive Number: 237 27/12/11 14.35, Clifton Springs – Boat
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ???
Water Temp: 20.4c
Bottom Time: 33minutes
Max Depth: 2.6m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Took the boat out with mick and dropped in on a small reef jusat west of the boat ramp. Not much of a dive.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Dec
27
Dive Number: 238 27/12/11 15.30, Clifton Springs
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: Choppy, murky, shitty
Visibilty: 1m
Water Temp: 19.6c
Bottom Time: 10minutes
Max Depth: 10.0m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: A scary dive with zero vis and a gluggy clay bottom with no life. Straight down and straight back up again. Just a random spot off clifton springs near the channel edge.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Dec
25
Dive Number: 236 25/12/11 18.57, Collendina for xmas
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions:
Visibilty: ???
Water Temp: 18.8c
Bottom Time: 96minutes
Max Depth: 6.1m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: A fresh cray for christmas was the plan even though i’d never caught one before. A mexican standoff ensued…the cray one. Abs for entree.
Camera Details:
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Dec
24
Dive Number: 235 24/12/11 9.15, Collendina
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ??
Water Temp: 18.4c
Bottom Time: 89minutes
Max Depth: 8.0m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: I promised Chris a wobbegong if he braved the long swim out to the great reef at collendina. The vis had dropped significantly since my previous dives and i was starting to eat my words on the way out. But not long after descent we were onto our first wobby, followed by a second, then a port jacko, then another wobby, and finally a 4th wobby. 4 wobbegongs and a port jacko…you dont get that on no PPB shore dive! Addiction justified..though i felt the run of perfect conditions were coming to an end.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Dec
23
Dive Number: 234 23/12/11 16.57, Prince George Bank
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions:
Visibilty: ???
Water Temp: 19.6c
Bottom Time: 28minutes
Max Depth: 11.5m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: A random dive to see if there were many scallops around over the Bellarine side. There were a couple, but nothing like Rye. Some interesting anemones out there.
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Dec
23
Dive Number: 233 23/12/11 11.29, Blairgowrie Pier
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ??
Water Temp: 19.2c
Bottom Time: 151minutes
Max Depth: 6.4m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Took the boat over to blair with Chris and Kerry in search for the ellusive Tassled Angler. FAIL. Lots of nudis and other goodies around though.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm , SS200 Strobe
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Dec
20
Dive Number: 232 20/12/11 7.27, Collendina
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ??
Water Temp: 17.2c
Bottom Time: 85minutes
Max Depth: 7.4m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Another dive at Collendina..an obsession.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Dec
19
Dive Number: 231 19/12/11 7.35, Barwon Bluff
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions:???
Visibilty: ???
Water Temp: 16.8c
Bottom Time: 93minutes
Max Depth: 5.3m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Barwon Bluff is world class when it comes to kelp gardens. The bull kelp and cray weed dwarves you, and you feel like Alice through the Scuba Mask. This was a dive to poke around the Earl of Charlemont wreck again, but its goooorn….reburied under 2-3m of sand. Incredible! I actually felt the sand gathering in a thermocline on my last dive at Collendina. A 1-2m of warm water thick with sand sat above the clear cool water below. I’m not sure where it came from, but i’m sure its responsible for occulting the mysteries of the charlemont once again.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Dec
18
Dive Number: 230 18/12/11 18.57, Collendina
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ???
Water Temp: 17.2c
Bottom Time: 116minutes
Max Depth: 8.9m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: A dive in my lovely little collendina garden. I saw 5 species of ray/shark on this dive, including a wobbegong, a port jacko and a big smooth ray.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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Dec
17
Dive Number: 229 17/12/11 11.16, Perpendicular Reef
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions: ???
Visibilty: ???
Water Temp: 17.2c
Bottom Time: 34minutes
Max Depth: 10.8m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: AF switched off on this dive.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
Photos:
Dec
16
Dive Number: 228 16/12/11 18.12, Curlewis
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions:
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ??
Bottom Time: 94minutes
Max Depth: 3.0m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: A rare dive on Scuba at Curlewis
Camera Details: Canon 60mm , SS200 Strobe
Photos:
Dec
15
Dive Number: 227 15/12/11 18.37, Clifton Springs
Wind: ????
Tide: ???
Conditions:
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: ???
Bottom Time: 58minutes
Max Depth: 3m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Found a strange egg cluster, and a very interesting anemone. It was a tree-like anemone which had 8 branching arms that captured passing nutrients. One by one, the anemone would plunge each arm into its mouth and scrape the nutrients off its branches. Very unique.
Camera Details: Canon 60mm , SS200 Strobe
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