Archive for the 'Diving' Category

Ignorance is Bliss

Sometimes it’s better not to know. Recently you will have read that I got in the first dive of the season off Second Valley. We went in with little awareness of what else was sharing the waters. In retrospect I’m glad we didn’t look at the AdelaideNow website as we may have been tempted to [...]

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God Lives Underwater

An obscure reference today, but some believe the above is true. It also signifies that I have finally managed to satisfy my craving for some diving. Yesterday a colleague and I headed down the coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula to Second Valley for a day of scuba. We had intended to go to Rapid Bay [...]

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About as dependable

The weather in South Australia is supposed to be predictable, and provide many calm days. Unfortunately this is not the case at the moment and the spring winds, as the season changes, have persisted. The upside to these winds is the pleasant ambient temperature over the past few weeks. Unfortunately the winds are creating havoc [...]

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Air Supply

No, I’m not talking about Homer’s despised “wuss rock” act. Instead this is a reference to my latest diving toy. Like most scuba divers, to start with I hired most of the equipment I needed. This is fine up to a point as hire outlets tend to keep their stuff well maintained, but it does [...]

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