Dive Review of
Dolphin Dive in
Australia/Freemantle

Caribbean, Australia, and New England

Dive Conditions

"Be back with 50 bar"  

There were no facilities for cameras on this boat, but it was 80 feet long
and I kept my cameras up in the crew's area.  

Overall Rating

Dolphin Dive runs a day boat to Rottnest Island out of Perth.  It's a 45
minute ride and was $90 AUS for two tanks, lunch and weights.  

It was Good Friday and everything in Australia was closed.  There were 25
divers, 1/2 dozen bubble watchers, a crew of five and activity everywhere. 
The crew was pleasant and I was alone that day.  They decided to buddy me
up with a man who hadn't been diving in two years.  I expressed reluctance,
but my only other choice (because NO ONE dives alone in Australia) was to
tag along as a third buddy.  I chatted up the original guy they were going
to buddy me with, took him through a pre-dive "everything I could
think of".  We jumped in the water and had a blast!  There are
numerous limestone swim throughs, caves, tunnels, and we flew through them
all.  I had just spent 1.5 weeks in 87 degree water.  It's now 74 degrees
and I'm freezing...so we swam.  We saw more critters than anyone else on
the boat.  I had more fun pointing out stuff to the new guy than I would
have diving alone.  They served hamburgers, veggie burgers, and chicken
wings barbequed on board.  While that was cooking, they brought underwater
scooters up and we could snorkel with them.  You know who was the first one
in the water with one of those!  It was a blast and, in fact, it was only
myself and the young kids on the boat who used them.

The crew gave standard dive briefings, but with the new dive buddy, I had
no hope of a 60 minute dive.  With the water temperature being what it was,
I was glad of it.  The crew logged everyone in and out, wrote down depths,
times, and figured out what our final group designation was on the way
back.  I'm not sure why...but all in all, it was a fun day. 

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