Thursday dive out of Hillarys
I went fossicing around for a lump I dived with a member of WA Diver a bit north west of Hillary's Marina. I couldn't find it on the sounder but there were a few pro pots around so I figured the ground was good enough and I piled in with Kasey.
1st Dive we managed 4 crays, the ground had few ledges and an obscene amount of big caves and swimthrus, in fact we saw a couple of forever-jammed cray pots in a nice ledge too. Vis was lousy, no more than 5m.
2nd dive we headed more directly west of the marina and further out, near one of the breaks. The surge really came up over the length of the dive and it was like being shot out of a barrel on a few of the swimthrus. Worse, or better picked over, ground for crays, only managed two between us on the dive. Not such a bad thing, the second dive was even more scenic than the first! I found a colony of little shrimp under a ledge, they were sort of bone coloured, with a few darker brown bands on their nippers.
Back at home, boat washed by 1:30pmish! Crays steamed and in the fridge for dinner!
big john
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Nice
All on the snare or some grabbed by hand Till?
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till
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By snare today. Ground
By snare today. Ground really didn't lend itself to bagging them by hand.
Paul G
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At least your out getting
At least your out getting wet . The swell seems to be coming up over the next couple of days ,so you probably got in just in time.Yum yum crays or dinner .
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Auslobster
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Well Done!
Good work, fellas...was anticipating a dive this weekend but the swell Paul mentioned is giving me second thoughts!
alfred
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Great job on the crays!
Great job on the crays! Hope the swell drops so I can get a dive in soon!
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Kasey L.
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very nice
Forgot to mention, bumped into a blue groper at one of the swimthroughs that I mistaked for Jamie - it was very big!
Some of the abalone growing there would have filled the whole palm of my hand. Nudibranch's all over the place too - too bad I was only looking out for feelers
till
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I do understand Kasey's
I do understand Kasey's confusion, I was in my 5mm wetty which is blue, not the 3mm cammo job.
Reefmonkey
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Nice work
Nice work on the crays till, i've heard steaming is the way to go with crays from quite a few people, do you steam them in the shell? and how long?
Kasey last 2 months we've just been seeing millions of nudis out everywhere from 4 to 30meters dunno if were just noticing them more now we have a camera or the warm water or somethin but no joke i doubt we've done a dive where we haven't atleast seen 20
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