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From: "David Strike" <[log in to unmask]>


> Yesterday - when I suggested that we intended to dive Harbord Point today,
> Mike Wallace wrote:
>
> >Good. I look forward to this trip report. I've been getting tired of
> >vicariously diving Shelly beach! :-)
>
> Bad news, Mike!  We had a look at Harbord as a possible dive site.
> Regrettably a wave lapped gently over a rock and so - as FLAT Warm Water
> Wimps - we all headed off back to Shelly Beach, just across the bay! :-)

Bummer......


>
>
> Further into the dive we found a wobbegong sheltering under a rock ledge;
> counted six weedy seadragons around 'Dragon Patches' (none carrying eggs),
> and saw the first Port Jackson shark (1.5 metres) that we've seen for a
> while.  (From now through to August they begin to come into the shallows
to
> breed and in July and August we'll regularly see dozens of them lying
around
> in the sand.)

Saw an Animal Planet show the other day with that dufus that's always poking
and proding the critters  down under and got to see a Wobbegong. Pretty cool
looking critters. I was disappointed that it didn't bite dufus though...

>
> For Mike's benefit, we've already decided that on Monday - a public
holiday
> here - we'll dive somewhere else! <bwg>.  If the weather holds, maybe a
boat
> dive to one or other of the wrecks - or failing that perhaps Botany Bay
that
> also offers a variety of good shore diving sites!  :-)

Cool. Look forward to reading the report!

Mike


>
> Strike
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