Hi all,

This is "Take 2" for the FREA Flinders trip.  Chris, Trevor and myself are taking the Unidive vessel, Down Under, to dive Flinders Reef on Saturday 29th Oct to scope out Flinders Reef for the FREA Project. For those that dont know, Flinders Reef is home to Brisbane's only true coral reef and fully protected marine sanctuary. Your dive will be among an amazing array of marine life and coral. The walls, gutters, caves and pinnacles of this reef are covered in over one hundred coral species including staghorn, brain, plate and many others, as well as soft corals, gorgonians and sponges. On your dive, you'll discover that Flinders Reef also hosts more than 175 species of reef fish, invertebrates, turtles, stingrays, wobbegong sharks and even the occasional manta ray.  

This trip is for open water divers but experienced divers to assist with the day’s proceedings will be appreciated. We will be returning to shore around 4pm and be back at the shed by 6pm to unload and wash the boat.  Dive gear is your responsibility with gear hire available from Unidive.  The bad news is, this is the third Unidive trip on the day.  I'm told we are third in line for gear hire, so this means you will most likely need to have all your own dive gear including tanks and weights.  

There will be a trip meeting at the shed on the Thursday night (27th Oct 6:30pm ) for a briefing.  Volunteers are required for the following tasks: snacks, finance, filling tanks, trip report. The expected cost will be between $80 - $100. Please bring $50 cash deposit on Thursday night with balance required on the day.  If your are keen to hang with the FREA Kool Kids at Flinders, here is the URL to sign up: http://www.unidive.org/events/4822/

Start sacrificing your newly borns to the weather gods because I didn't make this request last weekend and the trip was canned due to bad weather!

I will see you on Thursday 27th Oct 6:30 pm for the briefing.    

Cheers,

Mark