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midweek report and at the Caloundra
coast guard Jetty were on an outbound
tide. The wind is currently fresh at 29
km/h from the south, which means The
Passage is nice and smooth. It's looking
a lot cleaner than it has been recently,
but still not quite as much visibility
as we'd like for a drift dive.
Which again, is a bit of a shame, because
the tide times are great for a drift dive
in The Pumicestone Passage this weekend.
As we look down onto Kings Beach, pretty
gray and overcast at the moment, but the
weather forecast is for the clouds to
clear and we should just get a couple of
showers here and there right through the
rest of the week and into Saturday and
Sunday. However the bad news is there is
no visibility in the water at the moment
and with the Cyclones out in the Pacific
at the moment, I think the waves are only
going to pick up and that will cause
more sediment to be disturbed from the
bottom and create less visibility, if
there could be any less visibility than
there is at the moment. Getting up close
and personal with the water at Kings
Beach boat ramp, just confirms once again
there is zero visibility in the water
and again it's not likely to change
anytime soon. At Shelly Beach the
conditions get worse. The waves are far
far bigger here and it's my sneaking
suspicion that this is the effect of the
cyclone out in the Pacific, rather than
the southern direction wind which is
currently blowing offshore at this Beach.
And in relation to how the water looked
last week, things are going backwards, the
water is even dirtier this week then
previously. Zero visibility and no chance
of it clearing up anytime soon. Taking a
bird's-eye view down onto what is The
Keyhole dive site, two words come to mind.
Lumpy and filthy and from this vantage
point we can actually see that the water
color has gone back to the milky coffee
color that was here just after cyclone
Debbie passed through. So it's anybody's
guess as to how long this is going to
take before we get any visibility back
whatsoever. Taking a look at Moffatt Beach,
I can see that the council have opened
Tooway Creek, which explains why there's
so much dirty water around the coast in
this area. Again zero visibility and the
surfers are having a great day of it. But
like the visibility, there's zero chance
of any fun for scuba divers in the near
future. Your tide times for this weekend,
Saturday we have a high at 9:20 a.m. and
a low at 3:12 p.m. Sunday we have a high
at 9:57 a.m. and a low at 3:45 p.m.
We're expecting the swell to be around
about 1.5 meters for both Saturday and
Sunday. So in summary, I don't think
there's any chance of any Caloundra
based shore diving this coming weekend.
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