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Diving in Mauritius

For the last leg of our Epic Africa Trip, we were struggling to find reasonably priced direct flights from Madagascar to South Africa for our return flight, so when we found one with a 5 day stop over in Mauritius, we made a last minute decision to tack on one more country to our journey.

By this stage, it’s probably no great surprise to most of you that I used this opportunity to get under the water! Diving in Mauritius is an easy affair – resort operators carrying all your gear to hard shelled boats, with simple step off entries. In a first for me, the water was so warm (29C) that I managed to dive in a 3mm shortie, a bit different to the thick 7mm semi I use at home!

Highlight of the video? Watch out for the 3 green turtles I was lucky enough to play with! Last dives of the trip for me – overall I managed to get underwater 17 times, not bad!

Location: Grand Baie & Flic en Flac, Mauritius
Water Temperature: 29°C
Average Depth: 18m
Maximum Depth: 23m
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Party Point Diving

The final pre-Epic Africa Trip dive was out on Red Boats to Party Point, a dive site along the Lonsdale Wall. Fantastic dive, with step outs as we descended, not dissimilar to an underwater rollercoaster!

The dive was made all the more fun by the fab crew I was lucky enough to dive with 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Location: Portsea, Victoria, Australia
Water Temperature: 20°C
Average Depth: 17m
Maximum Depth: 29m
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Portsea Pier Sunrise Dive

Life has been hectic, so I thought I would spend some time today trying to catch up on my Dive Videos, all the way back from March, the Sunday prior to my Epic Africa Trip!

After 2 months of diving every weekend, I was concerned that it would be some time before I would get a chance to dive in Africa (it ended up being a full 18 days 😱), so I made the most of it and managed 4 dives in one day!

The first was a rather spiritual sunrise dive with the lovely Jane, underneath the Portsea Pier (first time for me!). An easy dive, with lots to see under the pier, and magical as the sun came up above the waters.

 

Location: Portsea, Victoria, Australia
Water Temperature: 20°C
Average Depth: 3m
Maximum Depth: 5m
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Blairgowrie Pier Reunion Dives

Dives 2 and 3 that Sunday were a set of Reunion Dives with my buddies from my Open Water course so many moons ago! It was nice to see how far we’ve all come since those nervous first breaths underwater.

Conditions at Blairgowrie started out fantastic, but turned sour by the end of our second dive, with barely 1m viz on the way back.

Highlight was the magnificent octopus showing off for me, first up in the video 🐙🐙 When we were still wading out into the water for our second dive, someone poked their head under the water and saw it… At only 1m deep, I quickly threw in my regs and dropped below the surface to film it, following it back to the shallows until my knees were dragging in the sand

Location: Blairgowrie
Water Temperature: 21°C
Average Depth: 3.4m
Maximum Depth: 5.4m
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Royal Beach & Schnapper Point (Mornington)

Another FABULOUS weekend of diving 😀 Here is the latest video from the dives Sarah and I did on Sunday, at Mornington. Fourth time using the camera underwater (first time with the filters), starting to get the hang of it, and starting to be able to ID some of the fishies! Once again, click the HD to see in all its glory. Highlight for me was the cuttlefish, magnificent creatures. The schooling fish were pretty awesome too 👌

Dive 1 (Royal Beach) was 35 min, with a max depth of 4.5m (average of 2.7m), 21°C. Dive 2 (Schnapper Point) was 64 min, with a max depth of 7.8m (average of 5.9m), 22°C underwater.

Am loving my new life under the sea, turns out perhaps Disney was right and I WAS supposed to be a mermaid after all!

 

Location: Mornington, Victoria, Australia
Water Temperature: 21.5°C
Average Depth: 4.3m
Maximum Depth: 6.2m