Bare Island 30th August 2008

Dive No. 317.
10.52 am, 15 degrees, 53 mins, 17.1 max, 11 av
DM Patrick, Liz, Carolyne, Julian and some other ring-ins.
My computer read 15 for the whole dive, which is the same reading as at Sth Maroubra a fortnight ago but it seemed much colder! I felt so cold that my feet and hands were numb at the end of the dive. The cold made it hard to enjoy the dive -- even with the procession of PJs (probably about 20 all together), often in pairs on the sponge gardens but also sheltering under ledges. Patrick took us to “The Wall” and was hoping to get us down to 20 metres but we headed back sooner than expected, probably owing to the inexperienced divers in the group. I was happy to finish though the water did feel slightly warmer in the more boring bits as we got closer to shore. There were at least two pairs of small cuttlefish, large schools of drummer and yellowtail, an octopus and the usual wrasse, hulas, goatfish and parmas.