Hey people of the interwebs it is Q,
bringing you, your dive conditions
midweek report and here at the Caloundra
coast guard jetty the southerlies, that are
blowing quite strong at the moment, are
chopping up the surface of The Passage
quite a lot, but it's still quite clean
under the surface. And the good news is
of course, that this weekend the tide
times are in your favor if you were
thinking of doing a drift dive in The
Pumicestone Passage. Not looking so
good in these southerlies is Kings Beach
itself, with fairly big waves rolling into
the shoreline and white caps off to
the horizon as far as the eye can see.
This southerly wind change is going
to stay with us right through to the
weekend and it's going to be generally
from the southeast on Saturday and
Sunday with swells around the 1.5 meter
mark. Taking a closer look at the water
down on Kings Beach boat ramp, the
waves don't look so big coming in here.
And trying to look through the waves, I
would say visibility currently is around
about the 2 to 3 meter mark.
Of course these big waves will be
stirring up some sediment from the bottom,
we can only hope it will settle down for
the weekend and we'll get some of that
visibility back. Here at Shelly Beach
it's a similar story, the southerlies
bringing in some fairly decent-sized
waves to the shoreline and white caps
out as far as a horizon. And of course
zero visibility here right now. It might
clear up a little bit by the weekend if
we get a drop in the wind speed, but I
wouldn't put any money on it. These
partly cloudy weather conditions are set
to stay with us for the rest of the week,
with showers possible on Saturday and
Sunday. I think it was obvious all along
what The Keyhole dive site would look
like with the current weather conditions.
But I do like the view from up here, so
I'm including it anyway. In a complete
change around from recent weeks, Moffat
Beach now becomes the most protected
dive site on the Caloundra coastline, due
to the southerly wind change and I would
say there's probably 2 maybe 3
metres of visibility at this dive spot right now.
Your tide times for this weekend,
Saturday we have a high at 7:30am and a
low of 1:52pm. Sunday we have a high at
8:06am and a lo a 2:26pm. So in summary
with the southerly wind changes coming
through Moffat Beach looks like it could
be your best bet for this weekend for
visibility and surface conditions.
Of course the winds could
drop by the weekend, which would make
Kings Beach boat ramp another potential
dive site that could be open.
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