{"id":554,"date":"2012-01-16T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T11:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:50:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T08:50:26","slug":"camping-and-diving-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Camping and Diving Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent the weekend camping at Rosebud<\/a> with MUUC. Rosebud is a popular camping destination on the Mornington Peninsula and reasonably close to boat ramps and shore dive sites on the eastern side of the Heads. Since we did a night dive in the Saturday evening and got up pretty early on Sunday, we didn’t actually spend that much on the camp site itself. And if you ask me, it’s not real camping when there are three different fast food restaurants and various shops right next to the camping area…<\/p>\n

Diving itself was decent enough, our first dive on Saturday at Portsea Hole<\/a> ended up a really short one. Apparently we missed the right spot and ended up with with pretty much nothing interesting to see. We aborted the dive quite early, bottom time was only 12 minutes. Instead, we moved to another area and did a pretty nice drift dive. The four of us hang to a rope and went with the current. The site was bit deeper than expected (max depth 26 meters) and our rope was little short, so things got little crowded at times. Still, a nice dive with interesting corals and decent variety of fish.<\/p>\n

Tthe best dive of the day was definitely the night dive at Rye Pier<\/a>, though. We ended up seeing lots of stuff, including more seahorses, different crabs (including really small baby ones) and even a blue-ringed octopus<\/a>. While blue-ringed octopuses are not very aggressive, they are extremely venomous. A bite will lead to motor paralysis and respiratory arrest within minutes and can easily kill a human unless first aid and hospital treatment are quickly available. Incidents are quite rare though, and we had no problems either.<\/p>\n

On Sunday we got up quite early, but due to various delays it took quite a while to actually get everything ready for a boat dive. Original plan was to visit the J4 sub <\/a>again as some people missed it the last time. As we reached the Heads the seas were really choppy, though, and we ended up turning back. We did a pretty cool dive at Pope’s Eye\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0inside the Heads instead. With a huge variety of different fish species and some visits from seals, it ended up a really nice dive. There were also plenty of small jellies in the water, but apparently they are not really poisonous. I was still little worried as I didn’t know that until after the dive.<\/p>\n

Original plan was to do a total of three dives on Sunday. I ended up skipping the second one (Portsea Hole again, apparently they found the correct site this time) and spent the time on the shore instead. Unfortunately, due to delays in the morning we ended up calling the day after the boat came back, and I only got to do that one dive on Sunday. Luckily the weather got really nice during the day, a welcome change after a cool and rainy week.<\/p>\n

A pretty good weekend of diving, even though the photos didn’t turn out so well. I’m also still having trouble with Tokina fisheye and strobe placement, lightning for most shots (especially for night dive) ended up pretty bad. I was planning to give strobe diffusors a try, but forgot to put them on. That’s something to remember for the next dive trip! And as the zoom ring for the Tokina lens arrived by courier today, things should be quite a bit easier in with that.<\/p>\n

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I spent the weekend camping at Rosebud with MUUC. Rosebud is a popular camping destination on the Mornington Peninsula and reasonably close to boat ramps and shore dive sites on the eastern side of the Heads. Since we did a night dive in the Saturday evening and got up pretty early on Sunday, we didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-diving","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masasoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}