Water Temperature: 19 Degrees
Visibility: 8m
Divers: Marilyn, Julie, Caroline, Lincoln, Carmel, Darragh, Chris, Bernice and Haroon, Dion and Connor(an awesome snorkeller).
Sunday was one of the few days I can honestly say the weather people got it wrong. The forecast was for ESE winds to 20 knots similar to the ones that hit us Saturday arvo. With this in mind we headed to mornington pier. When we arrived it was chockers. Tourists, locals and divers jostling for carparks. Finally getting into the water about an hour later we headed down the pier on the inside. Passing several clouds of silt where new divers grouped whilst doing their skills. As is often the case with Mornington pier there was a slight current pushing from in the harbour out under the pier due to the outgoing tide. Once we have moved through the section where schools of old wives, long finned pike, goatfish and the old long snouted boarfish where we dropped over the rock wall and settled in 8m. We headed south along the wall around towards snapper point. On the way we past several schools of goatfish, a few small rays, flounder, small snapper and a huge school of Australian salmon. On the way back we came up shallower along the wall swimming amongst zebrafish, sweep and big schools of hula fish. Conditions were not fantastic but I dived with a newly qualified student who had a ball and got to see the big school. I am looking at doing a shore dive next week on Sunday also.
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