The long-awaited, 500-page reference detailing 1,600 animals with 2,000 photographs and descriptive text is the most comprehensive visual field guide to marine invertebrate life.
This book covers a small area of barrier reef from Townsville to Dunk Island and includes the Coral Sea Reefs and Atolls also Australia's most famous shipwreck the SS Yongala.
The Rip is the name given to that renowned stretch of water at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay, separating Points Lonsdale and Nepean. This area can be one of the most dangerous stretches of water on our continent, but at times can be so peaceful and calm that one could not envisage the hundreds of ships which have been lost in its vicinity.
I have now been scuba diving for over 25 years and have a pretty good training record:
- 1980 Open water Diver
- 1990 Advanced Open Water Diver
- 2004 Rescue Diver
by this plan I should be an Instructor just under my 90th birthday.
For those that live and dive in the temperate water of Victoria we are blessed with an abundance of readily accessible sea food - just waiting to be picked up - abalone, crayfish, scallops.