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Bass Point - The Gutter (Blue Devil Cave)

This video gives you some of the highlights of diving at Blue Devil Cave from the Gutter. I shot this video over two days 19.4.14 and 26.4.14 with my GoPro Hero 3+, apologies if its a little shaky as I was in the process of getting used to my new dry suit. The Gutter gets its name from quite a large incision into the rock platform and grassed area. In reality, The Gutter itself is quite small and is not a dive site except as far as being an entry and exit section to a larger dive site. Really you only spend a minute or so in it while entering and exiting the water. After walking across the grassed area you cross the rock platform and, depending on the tide, enter the water at the most suitable location. Once you are in the water, descend to the bottom where it is about three or four metres. Start swimming to the north along the bottom of the prominent gutter. As you go the width of The Gutter increases and eventually you will lose sight of one side or the other. I suggest following the western side (that is, keeping the wall on your left). The bottom is composed of small rocks and they are covered by kelp. As you go the wall on the left becomes a more gentle slope and it is a bit barer. It has some sponges and sea squirts on it and generally there are many bulleyes and ladder-finned pomfrets. After a 100 metres or so there is a small canyon on your left. The depth here is about 18 metres. Follow the canyon and the kelp disappears. At the end turn right and go up and over the small ridge. There are some nice sponges as you go and normally many leatherjackets, seapike and some cuttlefish in this area. The natural way to go is pretty clear and you follow the small wall on your right till you come to another ridge (you are heading north-east or so). Just over this there is another gutter which has some excellent gorgonias, sea dragons, sea squirts and sponges. This is the most colourful section of the dive and the depth is almost 20 metres. Keep going along the gutter and after 30 metres you will meet the main gutter. Turn right and swim up the middle over the rocky bottom (interspersed in spots by sand). Make sure that you do not re-enter the gutter you followed off the main gutter. There are sea dragons in this area. Gradually the depth comes up from 18 metres to 14 then 8 before you enter The Gutter where it is five metres. When you are in three metres, surface and find a good exit spot (in low tides, on the point, high tide further up the gutter). It is a fairly easy exit. On this dive you will not usually see big fish, although the usual red morwongs, striped seapike, various leatherjackets and bream are often seen. The big attraction of this dive is the smaller fishlife and macro-life, including nudibranches. Cuttlefish, squid, moray eel, eastern hulafish, pygmy leatherjacket, old wife are commonly sighted. There is nearly always a large ray at the mouth of The Gutter. For more information pleas head over to Michael McFaydens Scuba Diving page (infact the above is an extract from here) http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info