What a time of year it is to go diving. The water is just crystal!!!  25metres viz yesterday (Tuesday) on the HMAS BRISBANE , 21-22C water temp.and 20 viz on the Gneering Shoals on the weekend. While some are still saying they have been waiting for the weather to settle after that torrid stuff we had to endure at the beginning of the year, I can't help thinking that they are going to miss out if they don't get out diving soon. We've had fantastic weather for diving for the past few weeks. The surface conditions can still have a bit of chop on top on some occassions but generally, even the surface conditions have been great. We certainly don't have that ground swell we can get when the southeasterly wind blows for a few days. We've got a whole winter ahead of us yet, so let those gentle southwesterlies keep puffing gently off our shore and flatten out that sea. No wonder the southern visitors love coming up here for winter when you look at what conditions they get served up down there. We really do live in the best place in Australia.