Dennis, and the world upside down: Diving and that stuff!

what be happenin' brah?

I went diving in the weekend that past, have been waiting for that for so long and finally we (the reef club) went out on Mornington Peninsula for some nice saturday diving!

I met up with Jono at the club here at LaTrobe at 7 in the morning, which felt weird on a saturday, and packed the car with equipment. Later on me, Jono, Camel (Camilla from denmark) headed out towards Rye to meet up with the other divers. It was a sunny day and I saw a bit more of this country, it's beautiful on the country side ;). When we arrived we noticed it was quite rough water so we decided to dive close to the pier. I had some troubles the first dive as I didn't have enough weight on me and kept floating... Luckily Nat helped me out and went for some more weights for me so I could enjoy the dive a little bit more! We saw some seahorses, crabs and a small stingray (or the like, might have been another similar fish...) on this spot, even though we only had about 2 meters vision. A little bit frustrated over the weight issue, I couldn't wait for the next dive!

Before we went to the second dive spot we needed to refill our tanks and our stomachs.. we had some food in Rye, first time I tried a sausage roll... It was OK...
Afterwards we went to the second diving spot which was in Flinders. When we finally got in I got stunned by how far I could see down there! Felt like I could see everything, REALLY clear water. At this sight I saw some goatfish, seaweed dragons and some sunken parts of a ship or something... and quite a lot of fishing hooks and other garbage...

Nat let the people who wanted to dive on sunday as well to stay in his grandmas house, of course I couldn't decline that offer!

We ended up drinking some beers around a fire, talking shit and having a good time ;)

On Sunday morning Nat made pancakes for breakfast... they were... OK.. but nice of him nonetheless!

We headed out to the southern side of the Mornington Peninsula, looking for some sharks. However the sea was quite rough so it took some time to get out to where we wanted to start our dive. When we finally got down there you could really feel the waves swaying us down there, pretty awesome! We swam around some corals and rocks, saw some small sharks, one purple and one yellow. But it was mainly the currents down there that was really cool about this dive. Getting up from there was a pain though. The waves pushed us around on the beach like silly and I got really sandy from it. Plus that there was a LONG uphill walk from there, and the equipment is pretty heavy... still, a very beautiful sight!

Before the last dive of the weekend, we refilled our tanks and got a little snack in our stomachs, we chose to dive a little further north of the first day of saturday. The anticipation could have been better, but the weather wasn't that good on sunday.. Anyway we chose to check out a "wreck" (an old small boat on the bottom...) and then check out if we could spot any big stingrays under the pier. The wreck was a bit disappointing, not much to see there and not that very clear in the water... a lot of sand and stuff floating around... But when we headed back towards the pier we met some really cocky crabs (easy to piss- and scare off) I sight hard to forget :) Under the pier we spotted crabs and seahorses everywhere, not to mention all the sea stars. Then finally I saw a stingray swimming under the pier, soo cool! It was way bigger than I thought it would be and it scared the living shit out of danish Dennis (also in the reef club) as it swam underneath him while he least expected it! (He was looking closely at a small sea star). We spotted it again as it swam back out to sea.

So even though I had low expectations of this dive, it was probably the funniest of them and a good one!