Dive #126
When: 10 February 2008
Location: Broken Bottom, Glenelg, South Australia
Depth: 9.1m
Bottom time: 48 mins
Viz: 10m
Water temp: 21°C
Buddy: Scuba Buachall, Michelle T
Too long a surface interval indeed - almost seven months (gasp) since my last dive.
We launched SB's boat fom West Beach boat ramp (after rescuing always-hungry Tin Tin who managed to sneak out of the house while we were leaving, and meandered off to a neighbour's place to scoff their bbq food. The bemused neighbour's remark on the phone was 'I have your very hungry dog here'.)
Beautiful day, conditions lovely.
A really nice dive, although I was a bit anxious beforehand because of not having dived for so long. Used the new baby tank SB had bought for me (and one for himself too). I was relieved my ears didn't give me much trouble on the descent.
A couple of huge blue swimmer crabs showed off their big pincers and ferocious stares as SB faced them down. Stunning. A cute cowfish, leather jackets, tallmers, dusky morwongs, and a very shy blue devil were among the other fishies hanging around.
Back to the boat anchor to find it being dragged quite convincingly along the bottom. Uh oh, that meant a less-than-pleasant climb into the boat.
Diving, it's nice to be back.
Labels: South Australia