St Leonards

Dive Number: 134
Location: St Leonards
Date: 04/04/11
Max Depth: 3.5m
Dive Time: 55mins
Temp: 18C
Visibility: 8-10m
Time In: 14:35
Tide:
Thermal: Drysuit
Weight:
Buddies: Phil + Owen

Back at St Leonards again. Just a quick dive to use up some air. Not much to see apart from avoiding starfish and spider crab wielding buddies!

St Leonards

Dive Number: 131
Location: St Leonards
Date: 27/03/1
Max Depth: 3.4m
Dive Time: 124mins
Temp: 19C
Visibility: 10m
Time In: 16:18
Tide:
Thermal: Drysuit
Weight:
Buddies: Sas
At just over 2 hours I think this is my longest dive so far. The conditions were good and a large spider crab congregation had been seen the day before. There was also a penguin hanging around the pier.

Unfortunately the spider crabs had moved on with only a few stragglers remaining.

There were all the usual suspects around St Leonards including a dive buddy threatening to pile sea stars on my back! Finding a very sharp fishing knife provided a good deterrent though!

I was surprised to see a lobster in the vicinity, undersized but I didn't know they were so far up in the bay.

Forgot to bring my camera!

St Leonards pier.

Dive Number: 107
Location: St Leonards Pier
Date: 01/11/10 
Max Depth: 3.4m
Dive Time: 56mins
Temp: 15C
Visibility: 5m
Thermal: Drysuit

Weight: 27lbs  

It was such a nice day that I had to do a second dive somewhere. I decided on a solo dive at St Leonards Pier and it was nice and peaceful until a big boat was manoeuvring around and stirred up the bottom.

I got some photos I was happy with. There were some shrimp that were keen to be photographed and a wandering sea anemone which is closed during the day but opens up to feed at night. I got a nice photo of a Tasmanian blenny and some of the native fan worms on the pier pylons.

There were some fish out toward the end of the pier, a few female blue throat wrasse and a school of aboout 20 zebra fish and, of course, the ubiquitous globe fish with some in a small group like a family.

Nice and relaxing dive, have to get back to see those anemones.

 Wandering sea anemone.