The Steps

A double dive at the Steps today where Della and I were the DM.  Sydney put on a magnificent day and the water temperatures are really climbing with my computer reading 18 degrees on the first dive.

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High Tide was before 8am with Low tide about 2:30pm so we had an outward current for the first dive and headed West.

The visibility was about 5M and we saw a few rays and we were accompanied by a blue groper for a big part of the dive.

There were heaps of Nudibranchs and with the low visibility they were the best photograph opportunities of the day.

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Above is one of those blue hairy Nudii's in a nice sponge garden

Today's interesting event occurred when we found that we had brought 2 unfilled tanks for one of the divers on the  club shore dive. We decided to give the diver one of our tanks each and sit out one dive each. As Della wanted to take the second dive towards the East she stayed on the shore to DM for the first dive.

We found some large starfish.

I took 6 divers with me towards the West and we had a relatively short dive (38 mins max depth 11.8M). One diver was down to 50 bar by the time we hit the surface while another diver, who had his own 125 cf tanks, still had 150 bar. I decided to use the 125 cf tank with 150 bar in and join the second dive. The second dive was longer and a bit deeper (49 mins 12.6M) but I still hit the surface with just over 50 bar

Nudi's galore!

This is a sea slug egg

Yet another Nudibranch

School of Eastern Pomfreds