CHECK OUT THE EASTER SALE!
Posted on Thu 01 April, 2010
Go to equipment specials page and check out the bargins!
Open every day over Easter 8am - 6pm for your diving services!
Sunday at the Lermie
Posted on Sun 07 February, 2010
The weather forecast said it should be grim but the actual conditions on the wreck were fantastic!
Flat oily seas in Port Gore and sun.
Little bit of a shame that the visibility wasn't as good but none the less we had 2 great dives. Very cool to find the book of practical russian and get the divers to learn some words! Great narcosis checker when down a bit deeper to try and recall the russian word for bike! or chocolate or bouyancy?
Either way its great fun. We are also standing behind our policy not to remove anything from the wreck- lets leave it there for all divers to find and wonder at what was going on at the time of the sinking!
Thanks to Oren, Ray ,Stefan and Hanna for the great day!
Sunset Crays
Posted on Sat 06 February, 2010
Last nite we had to take advantage of the perfect evenings that we have been having lately so we shot out for a sneaky dive.
Within 15minutes we had settled on a spot that turned out to be awesome!.
Heaps of Jason mirablis nudibranchs (sonic the hedgehog) fish everywhere and topped off by getting some crays which is never a bad thing!
Awesome night- long may they continue.
Underwater photo bonanza!
Posted on Fri 29 January, 2010
THis week, Rosario Del Gardo completed her Underwater photography specialty course with some diving in the inner sounds. Fantastic conditions, warm water and some very cooperative marine life meant for 275 images been shot over 2 dives! Thats a pretty quick shutter finger.
Check out the vis
Well done Rosie great to get some good conditions finally!
Doin it at Durville !
Posted on Wed 27 January, 2010
Well it would seem from the lack of blogging action that we must have given up diving! Rest assured we haven't! Its just been busy with summer coming full on and s%#t hitting the fan that we haven't sat down and shared our thoughts for a while.
Flying in to Catherine Cove on the Float Plane
So its now 2010, a new decade for diving and i thought i'd kick off the blog session with our trip to Durville on Monday.
My beautiful wife Dale organised a surprise overnight night mission to the island flying in and out on the float plane, staying in a beachfount luxury unit and a day out spearfishing! Wow what more can i say!
This is the ultimate way to get around the sounds, only 20 mins from Picton and we were standing in Catherine Cove discussing where to go shorkelling!
Arrival on the beach!
We were greeted on the beach by Robyn and Aaron McCokindale, the owners of the Wilderness Resort and shown to our room. Once sorted out with the "Durville Cure" massive breakfast with all the right carbo loading you need, we were off up the eastern side of the island heading to Cape Stevens.
An ok moki with Stephens Island behind us
We shorkelled all over Bill Hook bay then south to the Rangitotos before heading in closer to grab some musselss and a few stargazers into the catch bag then home where Aaron prepared the awesome seafood ensemble you see below.
Thai curry Paua, Moki sashimi, Honey Chilli Mussells and Crays
It was a fantastic day out, Durville island is awesome, the Wilderness Lodge is a great place to stay and eat, Aaron is a guru chef and the Picton Floatplane has got to be the best way of getting there!
We are going to organise 2 trips back to Durville before winter. One will be a diving mission and one will be dedicated to shorkelling and free diving.
Thanks so much Dale, you are a legend, best gift i have ever got (except for our daughter Jessica and the new girl on the way!)
We are back for 2010 so keep watching this space!
Cheers
Ben
