After the awesome wreck dives on Australia Day weekend, last Saturday was a return to bit more mundane diving with MUUC. Girls were out doing some shore diving on their own, so it was just us boys (and one girl) on the boat. There were several new members with us as well, so we kept things simple and started with a slack dive on Lonsdale Wall.
The second dive of the day made up for it though. We went for a return visit to Sven’s Reef near Barwon Heads. While still not quite ideal, conditions were much better than on our previous visit. Vis was better and while there was some surge it wasn’t nearly as bad as last time. I also had a full tank this time around, so we did a pretty long dive with Luke and my buddy from the first dive (who now had a working reg too!).
The reef over there is pretty amazing, there are lots of overhangs, swim-throughs and various holes. With huge schools of fish swimming above us it was some of the most interesting reef diving I have done. The whole area is covered in bommies, of particular interest was a single narrow pinnacle rising maybe five or six meters from the bottom. We spent most of the dive at around 20 meters giving us a long and very nice dive. Bit too many particles in the water for great photos, but I still ended up with some pretty decent ones.
There was also some talk of doing a third boat dive but it was getting bit late already and we would have needed some refills. So we just ended up heading back to the shed, washing the boat and the gear and finished the evening with a barbecue.
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