The dive master was Joe and my dive buddy was David. On the first dive we found a very friendly blue groper and gave him a feed.
We carried on to the cave and spent a few minutes taking in the cave life. I tried to get some photos but there wasn't enough light in the cave. I guess I need the flash after all!
Inside the cave (no flash!)
We headed out further for a few meters and bumped into a particularly angry giant cuttlefish. He was letting David know in no uncertain terms that he wasn't welcome in these parts. He had his tentacles high up and was darting back and forth. Unfortunately I didn't get a photo as I was too busy taking in the show. We went on a little further before deciding to turn back as I was down to 1800psi. We headed back on a reciprocal heading of 210 degrees and surfaced next to the dive buoy.
After a nice lunch of tomato soup, peanut butter roll and Minties we headed off to do the same dive again. This time we wanted to spend longer in the cave.
David (my buddy)
The visibility was fairly average and there were some very warm and cold currents as we headed back out to the cave. We found a brightly coloured starfish that caught our attention for awhile, but my pictures didn't turn out so good so I won't waste the bandwidth here.
We sat in the cave for several minutes and took it all in. It is quite magical inside the cave and there were hundreds of fish. David found his adversary from the first dive, the giant cuttlefish, lurking in the shadows. The giant cuttlefish was equally displeased to see us as he was on the first dive. I shone my torch on him and he disappeared. We didn't find him again. We left the cave and found a queue of divers waiting to get in. I guess we were hogging all the cave!
Scuba Central
We headed back, passed the rocking horse, and ran into several other scuba divers. It was scuba central for awhile. David was easy to spot as he was the only one with blue fins. I was much more difficult to keep an eye on as I, like everyone else, was black from head to toe. David lost sight of me a few times but I was easily able to identify him and let him know where I was.
I found a nudibranc and tried the macro setting on my camera. I obviously need to keep very still while the macro setting is on as the images all came out blurred. Here is the best of the poor bunch, let's see if I can improve on this?
Blurred and out of focus- it can only get better!
I like this dive site and would recommend it to anyone. It does get fairly busy with lots of scuba divers around. I think this would be an excellent night dive.
View Oak Park - the cave in a larger map
Estimated dive path (we went a little further south on the second dive).
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