dives scheduled

Thursday with Crest Diving
Nice long shore dive out of Jervis Bay

Sat 9h15 am out of Woollongong with United Divers
boat dive out to Pig Island or Toothbrush Island

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Pig Island

(Bass Island)

 

Depth 15-30m

 

Visibility Usually Good

Also known as "Bass Island", Pig Island is one of the Five Islands in the Illawarra (Wollongong) region, south of Sydney. It is accessible only by boat departing from nearby Wollongong Harbor. Diving is possible all around Pig Island, but the southern side seems to offer the best all round diving. Depths here work down to about 18-25m, with a great sponge garden and a lot of rocky gullies and walls. This area is part of a reef running towards nearby Toothbrush Island. There is a good variety of fish life including snapper, tailor, bonito, bream, groper. In addition, you can often spot spotted rays and some large wobbegongs. The colors in the sponge garden are superb. This is a great first dive for a day, with nearby Toothbrush Island, with its shallower depths, interesting terrain and abundant fish life offering a fantastic second dive.

Toothbrush Island

(Flinders Island)

 

Depth 5-15m

 

Visibility Usually Excellent

Toothbrush Island is one of the Five Islands off Wollongong, about an hour south of Sydney. Access is by boat, with a launching ramp at Wollongong. Alternatively, United Divers offers regular charters out to the Five Islands. On its day, Toothbrush Island would have some of the best visibility and fish life I've experienced. As it is quite a shallow dive, it is a perfect second dive to deeper, nearby sites, such as the wreck of the Bombo, and Pig and Martin Island. Toothbrush Island features lots of swim throughs and channels which offer a lot of interesting terrain, as well as three reasonably large caves. The deepest of these lies in 12-15m, and usually housing Port Jackson sharks. Other fish life includes HUGE schools of yellowtail, an enormous resident Blue Groper (Basil), Moray eels, kingfish, snapper, bream and trevally. Plenty of bottom time and great visibility make for an excellent dive.

moblog - adelaide to melbourne

the day after my shoot in melbourne, i had a free day so i scheduled a shark dive at the aquarium.
Kim n Sally came with me and shot some images while i was in the water :-)
it was really cold too.
i'm not sure if i enjoyed the actual dive or watching the penguins more!

oh. and i'm seeing more Krispy Kreme shops here than i do in the US!










(melbourne airport)




all lounges need snooker tables


approaching adelaide


hahndorf - when i was in bremen i learned this are called negerkusse


went to korean bbq and for desert had some chocolate cream tia maria fondue thing


mrgone  does coffee

2 more dives!!

yippee

2 more dives added with Shellharbour Scuba
thursday night dive, and sunday dive.
both shore dives.

woah. my legs are gonna get some work
(thurs am then night) Sat n Sun.
also picked up a mask cuz with the bunch o dives coming up this week, i'd like something i can count on fitting.

(Cressi Penta)



mines all clear though, with small black areas not blue
i really wanted pink or orange but i figured that'd be a bit obnoxious.