Diving
Julian Rocks Dives
I've dived at Julian Rocks 4 times:
Dive number | Date | Site | Location | Area | Country | Wreck | Freshwater | Depth (m) | Bottom time (min) | Total time (min) | Divers | Quality | Summary | Equipment |
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366 |
19 Sep 1988 | Julian Rocks | Byron Bay | Australia | 20 | 30 | 32 | Iain Hosking, Ashley Dunne, Cathy Humphries | Dived Hughie's Trench. Boat dive from Byron Bay Dive Centre - good value (threw in the DV hire for nothing). Smooth operation - one-man launch of a large, heavy and powerful dive boat, and a total time of around 1.5 hours for 7 divers in the water. Weather fantastic, and water fairly clear, though not spectacular. Saw a large loggerhead turtle, a small moray eel (which Cathy fed) and a couple of wobbegong sharks, plus numerous smaller, colourful fish. One of them bit me, the bastard. Dolphins on the way back. Brilliant. | Wetsuit, hired BCD and DV (mine was in a bad way) | ||||
367 |
20 Sep 1988 | Julian Rocks | Byron Bay | Australia | 20 | 30 | 30 | Iain Hosking, Cathy Humphries | Calmer weather than yesterday. Dived Cod Hole - a tunnel with a particularly high concentration of fish - bullseyes, jewfish, moray, wrasse, scalyfin (a damselfish), wobbegongs and others too numerous (or unknown) to mention. | Wetsuit, new Mirage ADV, 24lbs, hired DV. | ||||
510 |
20 May 2000 | Julian Rocks | Byron Bay | Australia | 18 | 30 | Iain Hosking, Andrew Kennedy | Cod Hole. Organised through Sundive. Left ~8.30am in old beat-up Landcruiser, which launches the boat by reversing at speed into the water and stopping suddenly. Immediate impression in the water and looking down was blue water and enormous visibility, then masses of fish, beginning with a... [2 yrs later]...a WHAT? I suspect I was not totally sober when writing this up. Nor am I now, but Andrew wrote that we saw leopard sharks, scorpionfish, clownfish, old wives, morwongs, crested morwongs, wobbegongs, angelfish, snapper, cod, jewfish, goatfish, orange basset and an eagle ray. I see no reason to argue. | wet suit | |||||
511 |
20 May 2000 | Julian Rocks | Byron Bay | Australia | 15 | 45 | Iain Hosking, Andrew Kennedy | The Needles and Hugo's Trench. Also written up 2+ years later. Andrew wrote that a guide (an English lady, as I remember) took us all over the place, seeing turtles, huge lobster, coral prawn, trevally, trumpetfish and lovely coral. Had a beer at the shop after the dive, then a couple at the B&B, then a few while waiting for Trish, then many, many more. Ended up dancing at a nightclub with English backpackers half our age. Walked back from a party about 5.30am. Very sore heads next day [Ritz Rail trip] | wet suit |