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There's a massive pier off the North West point at Exmouth that has a lot of coral growing on it and a corresponding huge fish population. I managed to organise a dive despite minor problems like not having my dive log with me1 and the only Navy Pier Dive being at 8am on a day we had planned some serious paddling.
My beloved paddling buddies got up at 6am so I could drop them and the sea kayaks off and take the spare car North to meet the dive trip bus which; after a certain amount of negotiation; picked me up as close to the pier as possible rather than have me drive all the way into town and back again with them.
It was windy and there was a bit of a swell and the entry point was a good 2.5m above the surface so we all made manly jokes about hiding in the bus then kitted up and plunged into what turned out to be some pretty spectacular water. I paired up with a lady called Debbie who had a lot of diving experience and wanted to take photos so we puttered happily around under the water and reluctantly surfaced when our air was a low as we could justifiably push it. Turns out we were the last out of the water. [grins]
I saw sea turtles, schools of barracuda, moray, parrot fish, wrasse, bat fish, nudibranchs, trumpet fish, queen fish, trevally, estuarine cod, groper, pike, box fish, starfish, a million LBFs2 and much, much more. There was a delightful warm current you could hover in if you were tricksy but the motivation was to keep looking around. I'm glad I wore my gloves.
A thing that really struck me was hovering near the bottom and looking up into schools of large, silver fish swimming slowly around the pier. It looked like they were flying through the air.
Apparently the dive is rated among the top ten dives in Australia which rather does beg the question of how many pier dives there are but it was well worth it and I'm very glad I took the time and did it.
Went about 8:30 am to 9:30 am
Offshore breeze 15-20 knots
Temperature between 17C and 22C
Max depth ~12; 61 minute dive.
1I bought a log book and wrote up my last dive so they could eyeball my 'dive log' then we had a nice little technical chat about diving.
2Little Blue Fishes
It was windy and there was a bit of a swell and the entry point was a good 2.5m above the surface so we all made manly jokes about hiding in the bus then kitted up and plunged into what turned out to be some pretty spectacular water. I paired up with a lady called Debbie who had a lot of diving experience and wanted to take photos so we puttered happily around under the water and reluctantly surfaced when our air was a low as we could justifiably push it. Turns out we were the last out of the water. [grins]
I saw sea turtles, schools of barracuda, moray, parrot fish, wrasse, bat fish, nudibranchs, trumpet fish, queen fish, trevally, estuarine cod, groper, pike, box fish, starfish, a million LBFs2 and much, much more. There was a delightful warm current you could hover in if you were tricksy but the motivation was to keep looking around. I'm glad I wore my gloves.
A thing that really struck me was hovering near the bottom and looking up into schools of large, silver fish swimming slowly around the pier. It looked like they were flying through the air.
Apparently the dive is rated among the top ten dives in Australia which rather does beg the question of how many pier dives there are but it was well worth it and I'm very glad I took the time and did it.
Went about 8:30 am to 9:30 am
Offshore breeze 15-20 knots
Temperature between 17C and 22C
Max depth ~12; 61 minute dive.
1I bought a log book and wrote up my last dive so they could eyeball my 'dive log' then we had a nice little technical chat about diving.
2Little Blue Fishes
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both above and under the waterline.
You have made me wonder, just where is my log book, too.
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