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South Coast Diver Recording the underworld on a 2nd hand Olympus TG6 and a borrowed GoPro.With the odd overworld shot😁

A few shots from a dive near Point Perpendicular (Jervis Bay) last weekend. The highlight was definitely my wife's find ...
16/07/2026

A few shots from a dive near Point Perpendicular (Jervis Bay) last weekend. The highlight was definitely my wife's find of a Mosaic moray eel - we'd never seen one before. They appear to have so many teeth they can barely shut their mouth, and (this one at least) appear much larger than our regular green moray eels. The other striking thing on this dive was an enormous number of black margined nudibranchs out and about. A very beautiful and interesting dive - as per Jervis Bay norms 😊

03/07/2026

I love this! Leopard Shark 1 swims past, Leopard Shark 2 swims past, Leopard shark 3 literally stops and says hello to each diver in our group individually, before moving off. What you can't see in this video is that he/she then moved on to say hello to another couple of divers that were about 10m away 😊🦈🩵
Filmed during our Northern NSW trip - March 26
with Blue Bay Divers Byron Bay

A few photos taken last Sunday on a very beautiful dive in the waters off the north eastern end of Bowen Island (Jervis ...
26/06/2026

A few photos taken last Sunday on a very beautiful dive in the waters off the north eastern end of Bowen Island (Jervis Bay). We were so excited to see a Weedy Seadragon - the first we've seen in ages. Weedy Seadragons, in my opinion, should be on Australia's coat of arms - along with the kangaroo and emu 😁. An extraordinary animal that is unique to the waters of Southern Australia. I dedicate this post to this beautiful animal 🩵

It's not often I do shore dives these days - but I wanted to try a new regulator so headed to Abraham's Bosom beach at C...
17/06/2026

It's not often I do shore dives these days - but I wanted to try a new regulator so headed to Abraham's Bosom beach at Currarong. It is definitely one of my favourite shore dive sites in our area. And last weekend it put on a show for us. The water was crystal clear, there were swarms of small fish around, plenty of regular characters and a few species that I've either never seen before or seldom see. What a treat!

A few shots from diving the wreck of the Merimbula at Currarong last weekend. Hard to tell it's a wreck from these photo...
04/06/2026

A few shots from diving the wreck of the Merimbula at Currarong last weekend.

Hard to tell it's a wreck from these photos, but there is actually quite a lot of the original wreck still on the site - including two large boilers. The structure has all collapsed (I understand after sinking in 1928 it was largely intact until salvage operations in the late 1950s), but the wreckage is strewn broadly in the shape of the ship.

Now days the deeper parts of the wreckage, which is in about 10-12m of water, is home to some beautiful sponge and other sessile (stationary) animal life.

01/06/2026

Have you ever seen a shark dance? It's worth watching this clip to the end (with the sound on). While diving Julian Rocks (Nguthungulli) we saw a number of smaller (presumably younger) Leopard Sharks that, like this one, were trying to shake off their remoras. The larger sharks (presumably older) didn't appear bothered - so maybe it takes time for Leopard sharks to get used to their uninvited hitchhikers...
Julian Rocks (Nguthungulli), Byron Bay, Australia.
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A few shots from a dive at Longnose Point in Jervis Bay on Saturday. A bit of an impromptu dive after doing some work th...
17/05/2026

A few shots from a dive at Longnose Point in Jervis Bay on Saturday. A bit of an impromptu dive after doing some work the night before to get our boat's engine running. We'd never dived this site before. The most striking thing was the schools of smaller fish - big schools of Yellowtail scad, Onespot pullers, Silver sweep and pike. It was like swimming through a very very healthy aquarium.

There was a bit of swell running and I kept finding myself rolling to one side while trying to take photos - and my bouyancy control just didn't feel right. It was odd - but when we got back our anchor line, my wife showed me the weight pocket she'd found halfway along the dive... It looked just like one of my weight pockets... hang on??? Yep I had lost half my weights somewhere along the dive and fortunately my wife had picked them up on the way back not knowing they were mine. My lucky day 😁

(for those who aren't divers - these weight pockets and the weights aren't cheap, and are needed to help compensate for the change in buoyancy that occurs from wetsuits changing volume due to pressure change. Having them back before heading for the surface made for a much safer ascent)

A few shots taken on a recent dive near the Drum and Drumstick (near Currarong). We had planned to spend some time with ...
26/04/2026

A few shots taken on a recent dive near the Drum and Drumstick (near Currarong). We had planned to spend some time with the seals and dive the Lion's Den under the colony - but the swells were bigger than expected and it wasn't to be. instead we dived a nearby site, which was a little more protected... but still very beautiful. What I couldn't really capture with the camera were the clouds of smaller fish that were ever present. The highlight of the dive for me was the cutest friendliest little Crested Horn Shark - but it was also great to see plenty of Fiddler rays out and about (I presume it's their breeding season (?).

More Leopard Shark magic from Julian Rocks (Nguthungulli)
16/04/2026

More Leopard Shark magic from Julian Rocks (Nguthungulli)

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