VSAG members travelled the 600kms (each way) to Cape Jaffa in South Australia for the March Long Weekend.
Charlie Brincat and Wes opted to drop Cray Pots, the retrieval of which is a story of challenge in itself!
The divers on the boats of Andy Mastrowicz, Mick Jeacle and John Lawler were in for the hunt and gathering of the famous Cape Jaffa Southern Rock Lobsters.
The weather was excelent on Saturday and all divers did very well with catches and we all reached our legal bag limits. John Lawler recorded the bigest cray at 4.1kgs but there were several crays all around the 4kg weight.
Sunday was a blow out and the conditions were against any sort of diving, so a we had a lay day.
On Monday our expectations of getting back into the divng and hunt and gathering was a positive approach to getting to the dive sites in view of the weather pushing 20/30 knots.
Two boats with divers got to half way, but the howling wind and 3 metre swells made this unsafe and not a good place to be! The decision was taken to cancel out and return to shore! Boats out, Andy and family headed home to Melbourne and the rest went 4WD driving.
Despite just one day of diving, the weekend was just wonderful... lots of fun, lots of laughs and some brilliant stories of the cray diving... the full story will be featured in the next edition of Fathoms.
Posted by BUBBLEDIVER on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:03 AM (430 reads)
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