Category: Local Dive Report
11th February 2025- Cuddly Leopard
SoWild got out to South Solitary Island this morning with another small crew of divers! After steaming through the swell, we made it out to the light and saw the conditions had improved slightly possibly due to the pumping current we had. Dive one was a drop in at Buchanan's Wall. It was a bit chilly…
10th February- Today was a good day
We continued on our week of diving and SoWild headed out to South Solitary Island this morning with a small crew to complete two dives! We tied up at Buchanans Wall for our first dive and headed a bit further up to The Gantry for our second dive. The first dive had a very chilly thermocline…
9th February 2024-Loepards everywhere!
SoWild and MegaWild ventured out to optimise the great weather we had today. The big boat headed out to South Solitary Island whilst the little boat made its way up to North Solitary today. MegaWild hooked up to Buchanan's Wall mooring for the first dive. On this dive, we saw a Leopard Shark and a couple…
8th February 2025 – Chill Saturday Dive!
With surface conditions becoming more pleasant MegaWild Loaded up and flew out to South Solitary for todays diving! First up our divers rolled in at Buchanan's Wall for a swim to the Gantry, along the way Abbotts Morays, Banded Coral Shrimp, a Depressed Spider Crab, a transitional Yellow Boxfish, Blue Angelfish were seen and on arriving…
7th February 2025 – Leopard Party at the Gantry!
After a brief break from diving SoWild loaded up and steamed out for some overdue diving... and once again South Solitary failed to disappoint! First up our divers dropped in at Buchanan's Wall for a swim to the Gantry, the wall was alive with macro life, such as Banded Coral Shrimp, Glass Shrimp, Popcorn Shrimp, Ambon…
3rd February 2025- Mega Wild heads out to the Lighthouse
Back at it again this morning, Mega Wild stacked up with a small-er group of divers and headed out to South Solitary Island to start the week with an epic double dive. Although still not fabulous, the visibility and water temp did pick up compared to the past few days. We were stocked about this! First…
2nd february 2025 -Super Sunday at South Solitary!
Despite the gloomy conditions this morning MegaWild loaded up to capacity with some super keen divers and powered out to South Solitary, where despite some layered visibility (and a couple of rude thermoclines) we were in for some awesome diving! First up our certified divers dropped in at Manta Arch for a swim to meet our…
1st February 2025 – February Fools Dive!
Dive one today was at Buchanan’s Wall, there was plenty to see even though the visibility had dropped off. Wobbegongs, Lionfish, Octopus and schools of Fusiliers were just some of the life spotted here.Dive two was a drift from Shark gutters down to South Boulder, no leopard sharks seen unfortunately but we still had 2-3 Bullrays,…
31st January 2025 – Thermocline Friday
Dive one today was at Manta Arch, this dive had about 6-8 Grey Nurse Sharks and the word on the boat there was a huge pregnant female which made everyone look twice to see what it was.There was also a few Black Cod, Nudibranchs, Dwarf Lionfish and schools of Fusiliers.Dive two was a drift from Shark…
