4/28/2006 - Diving the Poo Pipe
I kid you not. We do a dive called the Poo Pipe.
Why?
Well, mainly because that is where the sewerage comes out.
No we don't dive in Poo.
They release the sewerage 1.5 hours after high tide into the Gold Coast Seaway and it wooshes out to sea.
There are multiple pipes, and we enter via some rocks. It is a climb down of balance and sure footing - though climbing up is much worse.
Anyhoo - it is a nice relaxing muck around dive. We regularly see Gropers, Trevally, Bream, Nudis, Butter Bream, Morays, Wrasse, Parrot Fish and around sunset it is not uncommon to see pods of dolphins.
I did 3 dives over the Easter long weekend and had a ball - set a new longest dive - 82mins. WHEEE and still came up with 80bar.
My favourite dive is to get in while the tide is still racing in and ferret along the bottom as far East as I want to - or when I get bored of it. Then I swim North into the Seaway let go and drift in. It is a hoot to hang onto the eastern pipe and feel the current ripping at you.
The deepest is about 22m but nothing to see there - I generally hang around the 16m then spend as long as I can at around 8m on the last (most Western pipe).
For the cost of a tank it is a fantastic dive. Every dive I see something new. This time, it was a bright orange cat fish (though it isn't uncommon to see giant schools of the little blighters when they are teeny).
I am hoping that my next post will include my dive profiles, but my dive poota won't talk to my new laptop. /sniff
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