Quite a few people here. Did normal dive. Lots of nudibranchs, some Vercos tamja, the frogfish, pineapplefish in normal spot. Lots of whiting in shallows, as well as yellowtail, seapike. Good dive, quite warm. Visibility fair.

Sunday 21 November 2010 - SS Tuggerah
Flat seas, virtually no current or wind. Anchored on SE side forward of boiler. A bit dirtier on bottom than top. Saw Jess and Phil on the bottom (they were on Aquatic Explorers). Went to prop and then to bow. Found a pineapplefish there. Back to anchor and boiler and up from here. Very nice dive. Visibility good.

Wednesday 24 November 2010 - Hungry Jacks
Club boat dive. NE wind blowing which got mush stronger. Lots of seapike, one-spot pullers, yellowtail and red morwong. A blind shark and a dead octopus. Visibility very good but some jellyfish in spots. Great dive.

Went in off SE corner. Had o-ring problem and thought I might not be able to dive. Went S and then W to Deep Wall. Very cold, 14.4C. Back near exit, Kelly found a tiny blue-ring octopus, was forming itself into a flatworm type of animal. Good dive. Visibility very good.

My 300th dive at Bare Island. Went in off W point. Headed almost S and then once at bottom of wall went SE for a bit. Very clean but very cold (14.4C). Kelly found a few yellow sea spiders here. Past anchor went further along the deeper reef than normal and I found 2 red indianfish. Back to corner and normal route. Very good dive. Very good visibility.

Club night dive. Went from Larpa Pt across. Medium outgoing tide. Lots of jellyfish on way, passed wrecked boat. Hit IR1 near main reef. Found 2 dwarf firefish on start of IR2. Went back from join of IR1 and IR2, Adam and I both had no compass, guessed direction. Saw a fiddler-ray. Refound the others after 2 minutes on way back. A lot of squid, including 3 tiny ones. Nice dive. Visibility fair.

Club wreck dive. My 600th wreck dive and 98th dive on Tuggerah. Anchored on prop but Dave's anchor line fouled ours. Had to move on bottom, used heaps of air. Very dirty on top and even dirtier on way down. Opened up at about 20m to be very cold (14.0C) and clean but like a night dive. Went to just in front of boiler and back. Took anchor to SW to avoid Dave but we only just missed his boat. Visibility very good.

Club boat dive. Very dirty so went to The Colours rather than shallower Blue Fish Point. Very drity on top but a little better on the bottom. Did not stray too far from the anchor. Very colourful as usual, lots of one-spot pullers and purple dragons. Nice dive. Visibility poor.

Club night dive. Water was warm, 20C and quite clean in spots, 20 m at times. Went out normal way but a new section of "reef". Probably sand held together with worms and kelp growing on top. Came to a dead end and then had to swim across sand to S and SW till we refound reef. A large fiddler-ray here and a smaller one after. Lots of kelp growing everywhere. A sea dragon on way back, lots of flathead, some very large. A few squid, one large. Lots of whiting to N and normal fish. Visibility good.

My 99th dive here. Absolutely flat seas and NW winds. Anchored between engine and prop. No current. Rudy and Wayne turned up and later Max G. Went to bow, saw pineapplefish again. Lots of bailer shells (volutes) laying eggs. Dark on bottom as very overcast, but a cracker of a dive. Visibility very good.

Tide ran in for about 35 mins instead of normal 20 mins. Was not too hard to swim against. Kelly had sinus problems so limited where we could go. A few moray eels, two mating Verco tamja, pineapplefish near Bubble Cave, frogfish near end, some whiting, a large kingfish, lots of bream. Good dive. Visibility fair.

Dived with Kelly, Ian and Gary D. Current ran in for 35 mins. A lot of bream and small snapper as well as fan-bellied leatherjackets and other leatherjackets. Not much real special, one pineapplefish near Bubble Cave, some octopus and morays. Visibility fair.