19th April 2020 – Shore Diving Mutton Bird Island

With no charters operating at all for us here at Jetty Dive Centre we planned up the mega of all Shore Dives!!
We had buddies organised to come get gear if needed and they all walked down North Wall with snorkeling gear, from there they hopped in the water near Mutton Bird Island, as they were doing this 2Wild had the boat full with all the scuba gear and made its way around to the same area of Mutton Bird Island and off loaded everyone’s equipment for them when they arrived. Once the buddy teams finished their dives they passed the gear back to the boat and snorkeled back to the exit area and walked back to their cars!!
This all worked very smoothly and Social Distancing was of course the high priority.
Underwater there was lots to see including Turtles, Stingrays, Octopus, Nudibranchs, a single Grey Nurse shark which had rope around it unfortunately, Cuttlefish, Hermit Crabs and believe it or not but 4-5 people got up close with a 3.5m Great Hammer Head Shark!!! Amazing.
Visibility 10-12m
Temp 22-23C