Last Weeks Diving
Last weekend the conditions were perfect in Adelaide for diving, the swell, wind, waves… although the visibility was down, everyone still enjoyed their diving!
Unfortunately last Tuesday Paul and Geoff were doing a job for the Government with our vessel, ‘Nauti-Nomad’ and we damaged our outboard, so that cancelled all of our boat dives for the week!! But don’t fear, she is back in the water and things are looking great for this weekend!
I was however extremely happy to be able to take some try dives at Port Noarlunga Jetty!! Thanks guys, you were awesome!
As for other locations… On Sunday a group from The Dive Shack and the Adelaide Scuba Diving Club (formerly of Adelaide Skin Diving Centre) went for a quick trip over to Pt Hughes to dive on the jetty led by our Dive Control Specialist, Rob Paton. The Weather was perfect. When they arrived at Pt Hughes they were greeted by a flat ocean and beautiful sunny conditions. The Visibility was around the 6m mark and the water temperature was around 13 degrees. Although the usual school of chow fish was not around today, there was so much to see, including nudibranchs, cow fish, spider crabs and even a warty prowl fish. After 1hour and 10 minutes we reluctantly exited the water. All this followed by great bite to eat and coffee at a café in the main street of Moonta.
Everyone had a ball, including the mum’s and dad’s who had baby sitting duties watching the kids play on the nearby play equipment!!!
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What’s Happening this week!!
Thursday – Join Tony Leggatt onboard the ‘Nauti-Nomad’ for a single dive to Seacliff Reef. Here you will find an abundance of fish life and reach depth to 12 meters. Following the dive is the regular meet at Plank Café where The Dive Shack members receive a discount of food and drinks.
Thursday Night I will be hosting an information session at the Shack for those who want to become a black belt in Scuba Diving. This is not to be missed… Become a truly Advanced Open Water Diver and combine your 4 specialties and one bonus one equating to 5 specialties for only $1000.00 You will save over 50% by doing this. So, please if you have ever wanted to become an Advanced Diver, swing by the Shack at 6.00 pm and find out all about it!! Plus I hear Paul will be throwing a BBQ!!!! See you there!
Saturday – We are diving the Lumb and Seawolf! We will be launching from O’Sullivan’s Beach Boat Ramp, so it’s a meet at the shop prior to boarding. This dive
Sunday – We are diving the South Australian and Barge off of West Beach. This dive will also be from O’Sullivan’s Beach Boat Ramp and another meet at the shop prior to boarding. Both dives sites will see you reach a maximum depth of 15 meters and see an abundance of fish life.
We are going to change our picture this month on our newsletter… Do you have an amazing shot that you want all of The Dive Shack’s customers to see?? Send in your photo to contact@thediveshack.com.auand you never know, it maybe floating around the traps for September!!!
Trips and Travel
Stay tuned for next year’s trips…. We are planning Fiji, Srilanka and Papua New Guinea!!! And of course the Coral Sea… Please read my excerpt from the previous weeks blog!!
Spirit of Freedom Trip – Ribbon Reef Far North Queensland
A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to lead a dive adventure to the Ribbon Reef onboard the Spirit of Freedom with several of our fantastic customers.
Chelsea, Karen, Anthony, Trevor and I flew out of the cold wet miserable weather in Adelaide to land Cairns to a balmy 28 degrees. We spent a day in Cairns to readjust to the sudden change in temperature and have a good relaxing look around.
The next day we were picked up by the crew of Spirit and taken to the Cairns Airport. We all jumped on a small fixed wing aircraft and flew to Lizard Island right up the top end of Queensland where we were introduced to our new home and diving platform for the next 4 days and 3 nights.
Wow! What can I say… I would have to keep typing for days to tell you about all the fun that was had by all!! I will tell you that we had 17 dives, 6 breakfasts!! 6 I hear you ask??? Well the day starts with “Wakey, Wakey Rise and Shine, it’s breakfast time!” which gets us out of bed… a small breakfast is munched down followed by our dive brief…. ‘Dive Time’ and we are away!!! Immediately following the dive, there is another full cooked breakfast awaiting us…. Mmm!!!
The days are broken into eating, diving, sleeping, eating, diving, sleeping… and other sleeping and chilling out in-between!! What a life!!
Some of the highlights of the trip : 6 Minke Whales swimming around Trevor, seeing a Tawny Shark sticking its head in a hole and then following us around for the rest of the dive, night diving with Giant Trevalley (GT’s The Ultimate Killing Machine!!), Nudibranchs Central, Chelsea and Karen (Nudibranchs Paparazzi - LOL), Turtles, Sharks, Socializing…. and Anthony, well Anthony had a ball and kept everyone on their toes with his practical jokes!! Deep Heat…. Ha Ha very funny!!
After the trip we ventured into Palm Cove and ate everything in sight!! What a place to eat!!! Mmmmm… Overall we had a fantastic trip, and without our customers and their positive and friendly nature it wouldn’t have been the same!
Thanks heaps guys, see you next trip!
Please come and see me and I’ll fill you in with the whole trip and go through Chelsea’s 800 plus photos!!!
So, Let’s who’s coming diving….???
Kym