Our journey to Raja Ampat began early on Thursday, 13 February 2025, with a Jetstar flight from Adelaide to Denpasar. Sonya, Tim, Cath, Sue, Cindy and Kevin touched down just after 9 a.m., and we checked into the Swiss‑Belhotel Tuban in Kuta — a convenient stopover before the long transit
An original Coastal Waters Dive Club group of 16 decided to go to Banda Neira for our 2026 club overseas dive trip. It all started back in February 2025 when a group of six members had a very successful trip to Raja Ampat, in the same Indonesian / West Papua
Why would we go to Whyalla? This may be asked by the uninitiated. The answer is, Whyalla is the only known place where tens of thousands of giant Australian cuttlefish gather annually in such large numbers to mate and reproduce. This unique aggregation is a globally significant event and a
By David Boyle This year the club decided that we would not go away on the Easter weekend but would make our own 4 day break the week after taking the Thursday off and with Friday being ANZAC day giving us the 4 days away. I arrived about 4.30 Wednesday
CWDC members headed over to Edithburgh for the 2025 January Long Weekend – and what a great weekend it was! Many dives were conducted under Edithburgh Jetty, with varying levels of visibility on each dive. The jetty is just teeming with life, and a resident seal who seemed to very
By David Boyle. My trip to South America had been on the agenda for 5 years, it was planned, booked and partly paid for back in 2019 for a 2020 trip…. then we all know what happened with overseas travel. The Galapagos was just part of a 5 week adventure
After a slow boat ride out to the ex-HMAS Hobart we had a great dive. The ride was slow, as the weather was not quite as Willy Weather had predicted, therefore it was a rough ride out there. Once we got to the site it was very choppy on the
As a club we travelled to the north coast of Kangaroo Island for a weekend trip back in 2022. On that trip I had flash backs of when I was a kid and my parents renting a shack from a local farmer, We went approx. 3 times when I was between 5
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