Kalinda’s famous Far North Trip is on again in 2011! Departing Cairns on the 1st of Dec and arriving in Thursday Island on the 12th of Dec, it is a great opportunity to dive (up to 4 dives a day) the remote, pristine reefs north of Cairns. Aside from missing out on the recent storms [...]
Bubbles from the past After mother nature forced a weeks break from diving, we’re back in the water again! Lucky punters on Adrenalin Dive’s boat sighted whales at Loadstone Reef and enjoyed dolphins cruising past the boat. They also reported glass conditions making it the ideal place to be if you want to escape from [...]
Bubbles from the past This past week has been a pretty insane one for divers who did make it out to get wet, with mother ocean throwing up everything but the kitchen sink. Craig from Remote Area Dive reported swimming with what he described as the “big daddy” of manta rays (check out his dive [...]
Winter in the tropics….. isn’t that an oxy-moron… well it seems that way to me… as our friends down south shiver, we simply smile and laugh… and remind ourselves that’s why we live here… Sure the nights can be a tad cool, getting down to as low as 12 degrees … but that means the [...]
Something to wet your appetite The good news is… no scrap that the GREAT news is that the weather is looking good for the rest of the week, so bring on that diving. The wind is averaging at 10-15 knots with a slight pick up towards the afternoons and above all the radar pictures of [...]
Thanks for hanging on and bearing with us over the last few weeks, it has been rather wet and miserable in the north with many towns receiving monthly and yearly rainfall records. Tonight Townsville stays in doors as the bureau predicts strong winds, and possible gales. Despite all this, there are two things that we [...]
Bubbles from the past We’ve been a little inundated with all the rain up north, however…..the manta rays are back! The manta rays are back! (Can you tell we’re excited?) Lucky punters on Adrenalin Dive’s boat got to dive with them on the S.S. Yongala last week. Something to wet your appetite This week starts [...]
Bubbles from the past A report from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority stated that they found 13% of the reef had been damaged by Cyclone Yasi, with branching and table corals the worst hit. However, they went on to mention that a lot of the reef around popular tourist dive site was unharmed. [...]
