This weekend I had another leave-pass to go down to the coast to do some diving. I stayed overnight at Bateman's Bay afterwoods because leaving at 5am start to get down there by 7:30am and then having several dives makes me really tired sometimes and it's not worth the risk of driving home on the same day.
Instead of a normal dive, we went on exploration dives to areas that haven't been dived before. The thing about diving is that you don't travel far under the water and you can't see things until you get right up close to them. So until you get down to the bottom you don't know what you'll find.
Colourful sponges
A moray eel peeking out
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A wobbegong shark having a rest on a rock ledge. This is probably the largest one I've ever seen - maybe 2.5m long.
A boarfish
Part of a shipwreck I found. This piece of timber was sticking out of the sand an covered with crustaceans. I cleared some of the sand away and took this photo. My dive buddy had swum away and after I found him again I couldn't find the wreck.
I went for a drive down to Malua Bay. The beach was pretty deserted except for one surfer and some folks with metal detectors looking for loose change, I presume.
