Camp Cove 5th January 2008

Dive No. 288 10.54 am, 21 degrees, 45 mins, 6.4 max, 4.3 av
Terrible conditions with lots of churn and all the churned sand and muck gave us a vis of about one metre. The only consolation was the warm water. We headed to the right at first but the reefs and bommies on that side were all woeful because of the almost complete lack of visibilty plus the relentless churn made it seem a bit dodgy. You were never sure that a rogue churn wouldn't slam you up against an unseen (though only half a metre away) rock wall. I took my buddy (a beginner, on his 5th dive) back south, parallel to the beach and onto the middle reef, which was no better than the other side so we headed for shore. Liz had buddied with Amanda and she didn’t have a good time, with bad memories of the day of infamy at Camp Cove a few years back. We did see some fish flying around in the swirling mass of water: mados, drummer, leatherjackets, red morwongs and a stingaree.