Queenscliff - Pope's eye & seals
Snorkeling Popes Eye PPB
Snorkeling at the Popes Eye off Queenscliff Australia. The water was so calm and clear on that day, there are Scaleyfins, Wrasse,Leatherjackets, Snook, Boarfish, Oldwives, A Baby Flathead, Herring Cale, Sweep, Baitfish and Couta in the footage i took. I used a FujiFilm Finepix J28 camera in a waterproof case to take the video, Will be upgrading to a GoPro for my later Spearfsihing related Videos. Thanks for watching, Please like and subscribe it means a lot to me.
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The Popes Eye has been a protected Marine Park since 1979 and is now part of the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park. This structure is very popular to visit for snorkeling and scuba diving. If you have never been to the Popes Eye before its an experience you'll never forget.
Snorkelling the Pope's Eye
On a beautiful Spring day, the kids and I headed out on to Port Phillip Bay for some geocaching, seal watching and fishing. We anchored inside the Pope's Eye for a swim and a snorkel.
This is one of my favourite spots and an incredible location to visit. The Pope's Eye is an artificial, or man made, reef that was going to be a fort guarding the heads to Port Phillip Bay, easily visible and a spectacular view from this site.
A horse shaped island rising just 2 or 3 metres above the water. Access is from the North and with an inside depth averaging 1.5m, this is a great snorkel spot. Outside perimeter is about 10m and makes for an easy scuba dive.
This is a marine reserve, so no fishing or taking.
There is also a geocache here for caches.
For more information visit
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Scuba Diving Popes Eye
Popes Eye or the Annulus is one of Port Phillip Bays most popular diving attractions. This safe, shallow anchorage just off Queenscliff has seen thousands of novice divers enjoy their first open water dive. Being a Marine sanctuary the site always offers a huge variety of camera friendly buddies.
Scuba Diving - Pope's Eye - 041216
Scuba Diving Pope's Eye in Port Phillip Bay
Fish at Popes eye Melbourne Australia
Port Phillip Bay fish, Popes eye
Pope's Eye and Chinaman's Hut Snorkelling
Wednesday 23rd March
Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
Diving with seals & dolphins at Chinaman's Hut & exploring the reef inside and out at Pope's Eye
Music: Feet to the Sky, Lulu & the Lampshades
Marine Pest Survey, Popes Eye, Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park
[Vision only] On 10 January 2013 Parks Victoria marine staff conducted a survey on the highly invasive, predatory Northern Pacific Seastar (Asterias amurensis). The seastar was reported for the first time at Popes Eye, Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park a week prior to the survey commencing. Seastars found were removed to help protect the parks high biodiversity and visitor values.
Popes Eye is a popular diving and snorkelling location in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, and has been fully protected since the late 1970s. It has a wide diversity of fish, invertebrates, and marine algae, many of which can also be seen in this clip.
Popes Eye and Seals.m4v
November 20th, 2010 - Our Under Water Photo Club, SWAMP (southern waters australian marine photographers) headed out from Blairgowrie beach onboard MV Rorqual with our hosts Dave and Jan. We motored along the coastline past Sorrento and Portsea with our first destination being Nepean Bay. We had dived here before and often with great vis and stacks of fish. Upon arrival however the visibility looked ugly and our first dive lasted 2 minutes... soon we got back on board and headed for Popes Eye. On arrival the Bay waters flattened off - it was flat as a biscuit! The vis looked much better. We had a good hours dive here and saw stacks of resident fish, leatherjackets, wrasse, old wives, mowong, etc.
One special sighting was several jellyfish with small fish in a symbiotic relationship. This made for some spectacular photos and video and everyone onboard had a great dive... some just enjoyed kicking like hell to swim against the tide around the Eye's rocky reef slope.
Soon we were back onboard, having lunch and heading to Chinaman's Hat... one of the channel markers where seals make their home. You could say these seals are smarter because their cousins, all 5,000 of them, live on Seal Rocks down near Phillip Island. These seals lie about in the sunshine, but love to slide into the water and interact with divers and snorkelors. The tide was slowing down nicely and the visibility in 6 metres depth was even better than at Popes Eye. We had a great dive and the seals were so playful. For Michael, Paul, Shwen and Scott it was a first time diving with seals so they were stoked!
We hope to get out again in the new year and have even better vis this time and hopefully have some smaller seals joining us as they are often far more inquisitive than the larger seals.
Hope you enjoy our wonderful part of the world... Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne Australia.
Stingray at Queenscliff, VIC, Australia
Stingray swimming around Queenscliff marina looking for fisherman's scraps. 27 Dec 2011
Scuba Diving Old Dromana Pier
Straight out from the end of the 60 year old concrete Dromana pier ( in line with the big yellow marker) are the remains of the old wooden Dromana pier, completed in 1872.
Only metre high stumps of the old Pylons remain but they are home to plenty of fish life. With the deepest point only 5 metres it makes an ideal novice dive or to test a new camera or dive gear.
Seagrass - Port Phillip Bay
Port Phillip Bay's catchment is home to more than 3.5 million people, and attracts more than 40 million visits a year, making it Australia's most intensively used coastal water body. It is also the aquatic home to over 12,000 known marine animals and plants.
Through the Seagrass and Reefs program, DSE and an elite team of scientists will improve our understanding of the thriving underwater life in Port Phillip Bay. The $5.5 million program is one of the most comprehensive marine research programs ever undertaken in Victoria. By furthering our understanding of the bay, we can better protect and conserve our precious marine environments into the future.
QUEENSCLIFF HARBOUR, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
M11 Round Pope's Eye
Cruising slowly around Pope's Eye to get to a jump off spot for the snorkelers
Reef Cam highlights - Your Window into Port Phillip Bay
Watch highlights from Australia's first ever rocky-reef live streaming webcam. The cameras are situated at Popes Eye, in Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park, Victoria.
Queenscliff, Australia
one of the first ever videos i made
swimming with dolphins and seals
Seal And Dolphin Swim. GOPRO
For a subject at school I choose Outdoor Education and this is an activity we did last week.
This has to be on the list of best experiences i have ever had.
Its amazing what is just out in the bay, not to far from home.
Check them out if your in the area.
Swimming with wild dolphins & seals
and snorkelling at one of the world-renowned diving and snorkelling site Pope's Eye marine park are amazing experiences. Seal and Dolphin Swims' friendly and experienced crew make their tours suitable for everyone.
Queenscliff Snorkeling 2016
Queenscliff Dive
Dive 7 in Steve's scuba career with buddy Mike McCarthy. Special thanks to the folk at DivePlus. Located in Melbourne, find them at diveplus.com.au
Snorkeling with giant stingray at queenscliff australia
Snorkeling with giant stingray at the harbour of queenscliff australia