This was a great dive trip. I had signed up with the IDC dive shop a long time ago for it.
Egmont is up the Sunshine Coast, and many of the pictures from my big marine life hardcover book came from this area.
Since it was an IDC trip, most of us got a lift in the IDC van. We had to leave very early! It was a quiet trip as most people were very tired. Erika and Joe whom I had been to Port Hardy with were along on the trip, so it was nice to see some familiar faces. Vince and I ended up forming a dive team on this trip.
We visited two dive sites: South Sutton, North Channel and Nemo's Leap with Kal from Porpoise Bay Charters.
South Sutton was a very fast drift dive which was great. I love not having to work while diving,and letting the water just carry you. There was one rock covered with baby nudibranchs, and the kelp forests were awesome.
Nemo's Leap was named after Kal's dog, who had lept off the boat there. It was more of a wall than South Sutton, and again it was a pretty fast drift dive. There was a lot of rubbish on the bottom from many years of human habitation nearby, and we found a pretty neat teapot.
There was an octopus that Erika and Joe found, but everyone else missed that.
On the way back, we missed our ferry, so we didn't get home until 10pm.
It was a long day!
Some photos from Vince are here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/AntonNorth/ScubaEgmontJune2010#
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