Start of Summer?
The 1st of December is officially the start of summer, however someone should have woken the weather gods to this fact as I think they must have been asleep.
Fortunately they seemed to have woken from their hangover on Saturday and gave us a near perfect day for the first day on our Lermontov live-a-shore trip. Although Sunday was a brief step back into winter we still managed two good dives on the Lerm, followed by an interesting roller coaster ride back to Port.
Blending gas at the Lermontov Lodge
Congratulations to Mathew who completed his PADI Openwater course with Andrea while in Port Gore, doing the last dive of his course on the Lermontov. Katie managed a few dives of her Advanced Openwater and Lee-ann getting a good introduction to diving on Nitrox . Steve and Georgie were cut loose, planning and performing dives on their own in less than average vis, navigating perfectly (in all most every case) up and down the wreck. Phil and Erika, visitors from Aussie, had a good look over the wreck using twins and slings.
Fish Reserve Blue Cod
So far this week the gods have blessed us with perfect summer weather, which is a blessing for the group of 9 students currently completing their PADI openwater course. Local vis is pretty good at the moment, I had a nice relaxing dive with some DSD participants yesterday in the Fish Reserve where there seems to be a few new Blue Cod turned up, either that or they have put on a lot of weight recently.
We have our monthly Kai dive next Saturday, where we will be heading out to Wellington bay in pursuit of come Koura (crayfish) a few spaces left so be in, we hope to finish the day off with a barbecue back at the shop.
Have a good week.
Safe Diving
Brent