Shelly Beach 1st December 2007

Dive No. 282. 10.53 am, 21 degrees, 68 mins, 12.8 max, 8.2 av
Liz, two newies, Patrick (DM) and I had a nice dive with good vis and warm-ish water. At least 8 wobbegongs, including one that scattered a large school of eastern pomfreds before resuming the customary wobbeging sleeping position on the rocks; scores of stingarees; three nudibranchs, one the standard black and white, the other two larger and more colourful; and 3 octopuses (Liz said two were staring a mating dance/ritual or whatever it is that octopi do when feeling amorous). We went to the kelp gardens but Patrick wasn’t able to find any weedy sea dragons (he usually does) and visited the motorbike on the way back.