Point Tupei 11-02-06

This was the second and third dives on this day and my 200th and 201st. We had previously driven over Point Tupei on the south side of Long Bay and had noticed a significant drop off. We decide to explore this with the remaining air from our first dive. With excellent viz we anchored in 20m and found a landscape that is just breathtaking. There were big rock formations and sheer walls, overhangs and fish life akin to what we have seen at Barrons Hut. As we only had part tanks this was really a "let's go and see what's there" dive and it was worth. We decided to do a full dive here. The sandy bottom is at 20m with rock formations coming up to 10m or so. There are many gulleys and gutters and some really nice swim throughs. The funnel from the Malabar is reported to be in this area but we did not find it. We did find a piece that could have come from a ship wreck. We suspect that the funnel is in shallower waters a bit further south of our anchor point. There is an amazing ghetto where there are hundreds of golf balls. Amongst the fish life were PJs, groper, yellowtail, bullseye, stripeys. This is definitely a site worthy of more visits. It is quite exposed to is really only divable on calm seas.