Anyway, back to the plot. I decided to join up with the club to dive the Rockingham Wreck Trail as I hadn't done that site yet although heard a lot about it. It is effectively 5 or 6 small wrecks including 2 Cessna planes with a bunch of ropes connecting them to help with navigation and the fact that it is an easy shore dive, so used for a lot of training. The visibility is generally bad and on the day it was blowing about 15kts, which looked like this:
But as you might have guessed there was a good reason for me doing this dive and it is all about "seahorses", which although I've seen one or two before I have never seen many on one dive. So armed with the camera and some skepticism from what I heard and the site (just stuck in the middle of a sandy bay), we took the plunge.
Well wasn't I made a fool of, because as soon as we descended and followed the rope out to the deep wreck (about 17m) we started seeing the little blighters! Everywhere..... They were clinging to the rope, swimming next to it and generally making a nuisance of themselves.
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| Yeha, there she(he?) goes |
Relying mostly on their very good camouflage and presumably unappetising look, they don't move very fast so made some willing photo models. Could have taken a lot more, but my buddy was not a photo geek so didn't want to drive him too mad, especially as I managed to do that later when I realised my car key holder we took diving had leaked......not so bad for me as I take the old car with old school key, but he had a new remote key which probably got fried!! Sorry Gregg.
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| Some were bright orange, like this. Same species though, I think. |
More horses of the sea on picasa album.
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