Location: Point Lonsdale
Date: 03/12/10
Max Depth: 4.4m
Dive Time: 90 mins
Temp: 15C
Visibility: 15m+
Time In: 10:13
Tide: Slack (High) 11:07
Thermal: Wetsuits (5mm Semi + 5mm shorty)
Weight: 18lbs
Magic day to go diving! Weather was sunny, very little wind and water as flat as a tack. Hit the water at 10:13 with the usual beach entry next to the pier and a surface swim about halfway out. There was no current but a bit a surge.
Visibility was nothing short of "awesome"! It was 15m+ and nice and bright. Within minutes of leaving the end of the pier Phil spotted a monster crayfish. Stretched out it would've have been as long as a 12L faber tank. It wasn't fazed by us at all and seemed quite happy for us to get right up close to take photos.
The sea weeds and grasses have been on a growing spurt lately and are quite long. With the surge and the long weeds moving around there were a few times when I started feeling a bit sea sick! Heaps of fish about. Leathjackets, blue throat wrasse, some weedfishes and some very large dusky morwong that wouldn't come too close.
We were aiming for Lonsdale point to check out the kelp there but didn't quite make it, I'm not quite sure how close we came as on the way back we ended up on the northern side of the pier somehow. We needed to be a bit cautious as when the current did start to run it would have been going out of the heads.
We found a rocky ledge on the way back with about 6 large lobsters and some small fish sheltering underneath. I was surprised that the lobsters would actually come towards me until the flash went off on my camera. These lobster would have to have been within 50m of the pier as I was picking up fishing sinkers nearby. I would love to cook one up, never tried lobster before.
Back under the pier there were plenty of friendly magpie perch, some old wifes and some not so friendly sea sweep. Tonnes of fishing sinkers, I picked up more than I could carry and when I put a handful in Phils wetsuit pocket I decided I'd better stop collecting them!
Fantastic dive, if we get conditions like that again I think we should go outside and do Lonsdale reef.
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