How lucky I am to live in Nelson Bay, home to some of Australia’s best shore dives.
During May to October I dived three of the main shore dives: Fly Point, Seahorse Gardens and The Pipeline and was joined on some of these by Emma Challen, owner of Let’s Go Adventures, Aaron Royal, my stepson, Jake Miller, who needed to “shave that beard” off, German Oliver Blunck who was holidaying in Nelson Bay, my regular buddy Rob Stewart and occasional buddy Bob Lewis from Nambucca Heads.
Fish highlights were blue lined octopus which is a species of blue ringed octopus, an eastern shovelnose ray and, great for photographs, a longhorn cowfish.