Bare Island
20 November 2020, Ben Crossett reporting
7:20am Friday morning and damn, I will have to make do with the second closest (and free, a pleasant change from Shelly's daylight robbery!) parking spot to the path down to the island. Mark and Simon pulled up 5 minutes later in the spots behind. Despite the parking frustrations, the weather couldn't be better: sunny, light winds, almost no swell and a flood tide.
We took advantage of the good conditions and did a stride entry off the east side of the island. I was armed with the macro lens and on a nudibranch mission. There were rich pickings when the octopi, grouper and conger eels weren't trying to steal the action.
Before I knew it the 60min dive time was up and time to head for the exit on the west side of the island (with a pit stop on the mainland for the navigational challenged....which in hindsight could be a handy short cut if you don't mind a bit of a scramble up to the bridge). As we were packing up (10ish), wave upon wave of divers were heading in. Were they aiming for high water (~11ish) or avoiding the early start, who knows.
