There are countless sites around the harbour, not to mention the coastline
both north and south of the harbour entrance.

I beleive Strike did a peice in the recent Asian Diver about diving in
Syndey - this lists many of the favourite.

We are just spoilt I suppose !
Julian

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, 26 December 2000 3:30 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Saturday dive


Ok, I've heard about the Shelly dives plenty of times and think
Fairlight has been mentioned before too. How many other sites are
there around the harbor that are diveable?

BTW, thanks for the report Julian.....



On 25 Dec 2000, at 22:45, Julian Pool wrote:

> With the Pacific a little on the wild side, we decided to dive at
Fairlight
> on Saturday instead of Shelly.  Fairlight for those not knowing the area
is
> on the shores of Sydney Harbour near Manly.
>
> Viz at Fairlight is nearly always on the poor side and Saturday was true
to
> form.  However, we took a route out along the rock ledge from the beach
and
> saw two large lionfish - one was around 40cm across and the largest I have
> ever seen in the area (the temperatures around Sydney are not the best for
> these creatures).
>
> We also saw large several groups of black and white nudibranchs clustered
> together in ball like clusters of 10-12.  Each creature was fairly large
> 5-6cm and quite plump.  None of us had ever seen this type of behavior
> before and wondered if it was some kind of breeding activity - perhaps
> someone knows ?
>
> Fairlight is famous for nudibranchs and you always see plenty of them in
all
> manner of colour - and Saturday was no exception.
>
> Julian


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