The marine studies class from CHEC recently completed their PADI Open Water Diver Course with us. Today was the day we got them back out for a “fun dive”, where they got to use everything they learned in the course. Mega Wild packed up and shot out to South Solitary Island for a double dive! … Continued
SoWild defeated the odds against this morning’s southerly blow and got out for a successful dive in the Solitary Island Marine Park. We tied up at Cleaner Station on the first dive. The visibility was pretty poor all the way down til 16 metres, where it then cleared up to a brown 5 metres. Despite … Continued
The Northerly blow called for a double dive on the Southern End of the island this morning with SoWild! With a mixed variety of divers, we entered The Gantry for our first dive and then swam down Buchanan’s Wall on the second dive. The highlight of the first dive was two cute little Yellow Box … Continued
With the diving we have had lately, it would be silly not to get out for a double dive this morning! With the visibility dropping quite substantially, despite the big southerly blow yesterday, we made it a macro friendly day! Dive one was a drop in at Buchanans for most! A couple of us instructors … Continued
Before the wind picks up for the rest of the week, we got our to finish the weekend off with a bang! Mega Wild got out to South Solitary with a great crew of divers today. We had a couple of divers finishing up their Open Water Diver Course and some others doing the PADI … Continued
After nearly a week out of the water, it is safe to say we were pretty keen to get wet again! What a better day than to go today, as the weather was fabulous for a double dive. Heading out to South Solitary, we encountered about 6 or 7 Humpback Whales cruising past the boat … Continued
We headed out to South Solitary again, with a small number of divers on the boat but everyone was big energy! Grey Nurses were out and about, all jam packed inside of the gutters on the top end. Big schools of fish have been loving the low vis lately, with fish like barracauda, jewfish, pomfret, … Continued
With the wind dying down and the sea conditions calming, it would be rude not to take the boat out for a dive on this fabulous sunday! We had a great time too, despite visibility being poor. Dive one was taking advantage of the top end while we could, so we jumped in at Shark … Continued
With the temperature increasing this weekend, it was nice to cool off this morning in the water at South Solitary! Everyone definitely cooled down, as the water temp was pretty fresh! Visibility wasn’t fantastic but the energy on the boat made up for it! As we had a northerly wind blowing onto the island, the … Continued
