Re: Trip report Lord Howe Island NSW Aus.

[dechucka]

"injipoint" <indji...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On 18/04/2012 6:10 PM, dechucka wrote:
>>
>> "injipoint" <indji...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>> On 17/04/2012 9:18 PM, dechucka wrote:
>>>> Where: Lord Howe Island a world heritage listed island off the NSW
>>>> coast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Howe_Island Home to the most
>>>> southern tropical coral reef due to a diversion of the Eastern
>>>> Australian Current ( made famous by the film Nemo). Only 300 residents
>>>> and only 400 visitors are allowed. Transport is mainly by bike with
>>>> cars
>>>> limited to 25km/hr
>>>>
>>>> Transport: QANTAS link Dash 8 from Sydney. A couple of hours trip which
>>>> was extremely comfortable
>>>>
>>>> Stayed: Arajilla. Great accommodation. 3 meals a day included. The food
>>>> was excellent and varied for lunch and dinner each day
>>>>
>>>> Diving: Dived with Howea Diving. http://www.howeadivers.com.au/ Brian
>>>> and Peter are nice blokes and run a good operation. All gear is
>>>> available and was in good condition. Pro Dive also runs an operation
>>>> next door.
>>>>
>>>> Water temp 21-22 degrees C
>>>>
>>>> The diving was great all boat diving but the longest trip was about 30
>>>> minutes ( didn't dive Ball's pyramid). Started off with a shallow dive
>>>> in the lagoon at Comet's Hole which really wet the appetite, great
>>>> Coral, fish life and the Galapagos Whalers were very interesting ( I
>>>> know seem a long way from home but apparently are also found at Norfolk
>>>> Is.). The other dives were outside the lagoon up to about 20m depth but
>>>> dives up to 40 are done. The beauty of the island was that it was
>>>> possible to get out of swell and chop. Dives varied from caves, to
>>>> reefs, to the island wall but on all the fish, shark, turtle ( green
>>>> and
>>>> hawksbill), nudibranchs and coral both soft and hard were great.
>>>>
>>>> Only problem is that if it is really blowing than the boat can't get
>>>> out
>>>> of the lagoon.
>>>>
>>>> Other things to do: Great walking around the Island with good bird like
>>>> including the once endangered LHI wood hen. Snorkeling is great at
>>>> Ned's
>>>> or Middle beach. They also do all the normal turtle watching, glass
>>>> bottom boats etc.
>>>>
>>>> If you have a spare couple of days in Sydney I'd recommend a trip out
>>>
>>> Thanks for that. Glad you had a good time. Was that Colleen
>>> McCullough's island?
>>
>> I think she was at Norfolk Is but I tend to get the two mixed up
>>
>>> You also on a.s.cricket?
>>
>> yeah that's me :-(
>
> You are correct - Norfolk it was.
> Why no commentary on the Caribbean series on a.s.c?
> I am sitting here in Spanish Wells on Eleuthera wondering
> why a.s.c. is so quiet

You're closer to the action than I am, what do the locals think. There has
been some comments on rsc, however I don't have austar so have been
following it via cricinfo so can't comment about the action.

You doing any diving over there? What's it like?

(cross posted to a.s.c for any cricket comments)

[injipoint]

Don't have tanks on board but we're snorkelling a lot.
We have most of our dive gear but we haven't gotten ourselves
organised to the point of being able to kit up and jump in.
I swear I don't know where the days go on this boat. One minute
you're doing a boat job and the next it's time for a lie-down
or a swim. The locals in the Bahamas play cricket at school but
they don't seem to be all that interested in it from a competitive point
of view. Basketball is big here.
Eventually I promised myself I'd get organised enough to dive
from the boat. Soon. -ish.

[Ecnerwal]

In article <jmq7f8$mvp$1...@dont-email.me>,

injipoint <indji...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Eventually I promised myself I'd get organised enough to dive
> from the boat. Soon. -ish.

One of the (IMHO few) times where snuba might even make sense, as
"easier" to do with stuff you carry (rather than having to mess about
with getting tanks filled, or have a gawdawful beast of a compressor
onboard.)

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[dechucka]

"Ecnerwal" <MyName...@ReplaceWithMyVices.Com.invalid> wrote in message
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> In article <jmq7f8$mvp$1...@dont-email.me>,
> injipoint <indji...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Eventually I promised myself I'd get organised enough to dive
>> from the boat. Soon. -ish.
>
> One of the (IMHO few) times where snuba might even make sense, as
> "easier" to do with stuff you carry (rather than having to mess about
> with getting tanks filled, or have a gawdawful beast of a compressor
> onboard.)

Can't see the difference you still need tanks on the pontoon don't you

[Ecnerwal]

In article <pridnT5AYptlWA3S...@westnet.com.au>,

Not tank-based. Either compressor on the boat and dive near(ish) the
boat, or floaty compressor (for typical boat/diesel setup, electric
compressor and rechargeable batteries beats storing gasoline on the
boat.) In either case the compressor is only doing a low intermediate
pressure. I'm not really a fan, but I can see that the tradeoffs might
work out in favor for a boat, if you didn't want to haul tanks back to
port for refills or put on a full high pressure compressor.

[dechucka]

"Ecnerwal" <MyName...@ReplaceWithMyVices.Com.invalid> wrote in message

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Have never seen SNUBA just read about it so thought you dragged tanks around
on a surface float. Thanks for the heads up

[Alan Browne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuba
http://www.snuba.com/?page_id=216

States the "Raft" floats a tank. Surely the system could be rigged as a
local small compressor, but "Snuba" appears to be tank based.

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