5/21/2007 - Ahhh the Poo Pipe!

On the weekend I did my first dive since late March - it was so good to be back in the water again. My fav dive buddy (Robyn) and I decided to go for a paddle at the old reliable poo pipe.

Vis was 12m, and we were down for just under an hour. Max depth of 18m.

I always say how good it is, but I had forgotten just how much you can see there. BLISS.

Apart from the usual little scorpion fish, and various subtropical reef fish... I paddled through a school of HUGE trevally - now I know that there were 30% bigger cause we were underwater, but they were as long as my arm when they went past. Robyn and I were having a brillian time just hanging out in the silver glittering water. I started thinking that this would be the ultimate meal for the sharks and decided to get out of the middle of them - yes chicken is my middle name.

On the way back to the actual poo pipe we stumbled onto a huge crayfish. He was happy as Larry (if Larry were a cray) waltzing along the bottom. He did look delicious, but didn't visualise him on my BBQ too much . Next thing we know, a beautiful spotted ray gracefully and lazily goes past us, hovers in the current just out of arms reach and then heads back the way it came. AWESOME!

All up, it was a great dive - nice to get the feet wet, and still warm enough to not feel the cold till the safety stop (where we fed the fish). I wore a Spring Suit (3mm) with a rashie rather than my winter suit, and that was fine . Following the dive 4 of us went up to the local cafe and had coffee/tea/breakfast/lunch in the sun - Wherelse but Queensland?

Love

T