Tweed River Diving Day
The Open Water training phase for the Ocean Diver course is over the weekend Sat 11th / 12th March. Whilst the instructors & trainees will be there both days, it would be great to turn the Sunday into a big club day.
Come and join our instructors & trainees with a dip in the Tweed River and for an easy fun dive, practice and polish your skills, test out new gear or simply just potter around?
The Tweed River is a great site for all of that. Even better, you can see lots of fish, turtles, rays, wobbegongs and if you are lucky even dolphins and eagle rays. With an average depth of about 8m it's a great site from Ocean Diver upwards.
Looking for variety? The site offers different dive options as well, so depending on your experience you can do a drift dive from the beach towards Jack Evans Harbour, you can just do a cruise around at the entrance stairs or you can do a drift dive river inwards, where cool coffee rocks and crevices are home to lots of different animals. Depending on how far you get, there are even sea grass patches which are interesting to explore and supposedly a wreck (has anyone ever see it).
So, if you are keen.... get your gear and come along!!!
Date & Time: Sunday 12th March, Meeting at 07:15 QLD time for 08:10 HW (QLD time)
Meeting Point: Car Park at Coral Street (the one by the beach & toilet/shower block), Tweed Heads, NSW (see attached map)
Organiser: Ian Dale
See Member List for email address and phone number.
Diver grades: All levels welcome!
Equipment: Full SCUBA kit including your own tank and weights. Divers should carry knife/line cutter, whistle, safety sausage or DSMB & reel and snorkel.
Hiring of Equipment: Contact Hannah for if you need to hire any club kit. Alternatively you can hire tank & weights etc from Kirra Dive http://www.kirradive.com
Costs: No costs (apart from your own costs of tank fills and carpooling if required).
Travel: Carpooling - Please let me know if you require carpooling.
Food: We'll try and recruit Carol Dale, our very own Masterchef, for a BBQ after the dive. Usually we give a donation to the Dale's for purchasing the food. We'll keep you posted!