Diving near Brisbane

[Jamesy]

I'm heading to Australia for a couple of weeks in Feb to visit family and want to take the opportunity to get some diving in while out there.

Will be staying in Brisbane for a couple of weeks and wondered if anyone can recomend any dive sites? (interested in all types of diving but think I'll be leaning towards wrecks)

I'm still a fairly novice diver, recently attained AOW and Nitrox, but only have 4 sea dives which were part of my OW in the Caribbean last year. Since then I've been diving lakes in the UK.

Also, I've been building my kit up over the past months (regs, wing, computer, mask, fins, knife - soon to get a reel and dsmb) all of which I'm planning on taking. Is there anything else not listed that you'd consider an absolute essential to take with you when diving abroad?

Cheers,
Andy

[JasonP]

Originally Posted by Jamesy

I'm heading to Australia for a couple of weeks in Feb to visit family and want to take the opportunity to get some diving in while out there.

Will be staying in Brisbane for a couple of weeks and wondered if anyone can recomend any dive sites? (interested in all types of diving but think I'll be leaning towards wrecks)

There's a couple of good sites off of North Stradbroke Island. At that time of year you should see mantas, leopard sharks and shovel nose rays.

Then there's the Curtin Artificial reef off of the back of Moreton island which is made up of a number of small wrecks.

And a bit further north is Mooloolaba, and the HMAS Brisbane was deliberately sunk off of there in about 30m of water.

My trip reports are available on Scuba Addict, Australian Index

Jason

[simon varley]

the best thing you can do is look on the dive oz forums here

[simonwig]

Hi Andy

I'm also visiting Brisbane at the end of February - so when you're back do post your experiences.

Manta Lodge looks good on their website - although not much mention of it on Dive-Oz. I'll post a question there and see what the local say.

Simon

[Divingchef]

Hi
Me and swmbo are off to Aus at the end of Jan till end of Feb, mostly business but have sorted some time to go diving.

We are travelling between Sydney and Brisbane.
At the Brisbane end we are about to book a long weekend on

Big Cat Reality / Dive Tours of Moreton Bay they offer 8 dives for 400 Aus dollar which is a good price.

Redcliffe Dive Centre - Diving Brisbane, Scuba Diving Brisbane, Moreton Bay, PADI. these guys do day trips and have a full calander of dives, apparently Flinders reef is not to be missed.

Also have a look at Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving Web Site really usefull web site.

Chris

[Jamesy]

Thanks for all the info.. time for me to get reading methinks

[malcolm smith]

A few years ago I did a liveaboard out of Bundaberg up the coast from Brisbane. There were a couple of guys from Brisbane who had driven up for it and didn't think anything of the journey.
Nice corally stuff etc.

Plus--------if you are in Queensland, you owe it to yourself to visit the home of Bundy rum, they do tours of the works -------if you see any of their adverts on Oz telly, you will hate yourself for not seeing the polar bear in person :-)

Enjoy, Malcolm.

[Jamesy]

The g'fs sister lived in Bundy for 3 years before moving down to Brisbane so they're off to see people while I go diving,, can't wait to get there