With the diving thread seeming to slow down a bit lately I thought i'd do up a quick topic and recommend a nice easy dive, The 23m wall off mindarie.

It had been about 2 years since we'd dove up mindarie way and figured we'd do an easy dive to kill sunday morning. I've always found the country off mindarie much more colourful and better divng than the usual cray hunting grounds off hillarys, but alas we've never had much luck on crays around mindarie. With cray lust always winning out when choosing a location hillarys usually comes up the winner.

The vis was pretty average on sunday but loverly conditions up top and managed about 45minutes on the bottom. We went down as what seemed like an artilley barrage going on up the coast. It sounded pretty cool, i know there are military excercises goin on up in lancelin but wouldnt think we'd hear it from this far south.

Anyway the dive... 23m wall is a great easy dive for anyone starting out or just up for an easy option. Lots of colour and lots of sponges, coral and big plate coral along the lenght of this seemingly endless drop off of about 4 meters in height running north south. Piss easy to anchor on in an easterly wind  and even easier to navigate. Just drop your sand anchor on the eastern side of the ledge on sand in 22/23 meters as close to the ledge as possible(when approaching from the east the ledge will show as a sheer drop off up to 18m). Follow your anchor rope down to the ledge swim either north or south turn around and come back to your anchor rope, it's just too easy.

A great dive for beginners looking to get a little deeper, co-ords have been well publicized in the past on the mindarie dive website and may still be, not too sure. Happy to share co-ords if anyone has interest as its no good for fishing and chasing crays ahaha :)

Heres some pics