Near perfect weather - sunny and calm. Hilary boathandled us out, and I dived with Brian on a bouldery rock pinnacle near Hilsea Point. We dropped in very close to the rock and I sent up the blob. Vis excellent ~8m(?) and scenery wonderful with extremely large boulders, swim throughs, vertical walls and fairy grottoes.
We saw bib, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse. Spiny spider crab, sea urchins, spiny starfish, purple starfish, seven armed starfish, sea fans, peacock worms, giant sea squirts and others, dead men's fingers (white/orange), boring sponges, sea cucumbers, elephant's ear, etc,.. lots of jewel anemones. Managed to get a few pictures - but not very good - blurred or grainy as filter cut out a lot of light (and white balance not right because buttons sticking).
Max depth 26.5m. Dive time about 40 minutes. Great to be back in drysuit. One of the best dives of the year. Hilary dived with Clint and Anne and they, although didn't land on the pinnacle, found lots to see and had a very good dive too. I drove us back - that was fine, and boat retreived no problem despite very low water.
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