Since we have been having so much fun diving in Perth, at Rottnest and ‘Down South’, I decided to sneek in an Advanced Diver Course with Australasian Diving Academy before we return to Croatia. ADA is a SCUBA Schools International (SSI) school. We covered wreck diving, night and limited visibility diving, boat diving and underwater [...]

In one of the local bays we went snorkeling for a saltwater delicacy – abalone. They are a little more difficult to prepare than oysters or mussels. But done right they are delicious. Preparation Place a thin fillet knife against the inside of the flat portion of the shell and move it inward, cutting the [...]

Yesterday I joined Cape Dive for the morning to complete two dives on the HMAS Swan. The Swan was a 107m long RAN River class Destroyer Escort; she was launched on 16th December 1967 and decommissioned on 13th September 1996. After decommissioning, the Australian government gave the ship to Western Australia, who decided to sink [...]

Today Jules and I went diving on Busselton Jetty – its one of the best little dive sites in the south-west of Australia. The original jetty, started in 1853, was continually added to until the mid-1960s, and finally finished 1.85kms long – the second longest in the southern hemisphere. A jetty was needed for local hardwood timber export [...]

After many years, it was finally time to get my dive ticket (Julie got hers long ago.) so I went along to a 4-day Open Water Dive Course organized by Australasian Diving Academy on Stirling Highway, Nedlands. With 5 other students, our instructor Rhys ran through all the basics. I would highly recommend the ADA and Rhys [...]