Diving on the Peninsula
This Saturday I decided to go out for a day of diving with MONUC, the Monash Underwater Club. We set off around 9:30am and headed to our first dive site of the day, Mornington Pier. Driving around Victoria is so interesting because you always see a bunch of different sculptures or elements of design built into everyday structures. We got to the first dive site and waited for the rest of the group to arrive. Once everyone was there we donned our gear and began the tedious walk out to the pier. Everyone joked that the hardest part of the dive wasn’t in the water, but getting to it. Jumping into the water after a long walk is always so refreshing because you get very hot in dry wet suits; especially when you’re towing over 40lbs of gear with you! I was a bit disappointed with the visibility at the first dive site. The location wasn’t very well protected so there was a lot of sediment dispersed through the water. It was so bad that within the first 5 minutes of descending we had to r