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Wreck trail Rockingham

Wreck trail Rockingham foreshore. Accessible from the beach on the Rockingham foreshore. Ample parking is available on the junction between Flinders Lane and Rockingham Beach Road (there are dolphin statues at the junction, and at the end of the parking, along the foreshore, there's a "floating granite ball" fountain. The parking doubles as "kit-up" area for plenty of divers (the site is immensely popular as a training site).

Conditions should be mild, and best time is the morning so that you can be in the water first and see the wrecks in semi-clear water rather than in muddy-silty opaque conditions. The site is marked by a couple of buoys, visible from the shore, the closest about 80 meters out (where the colour of the water turns from greenish to deep blue). The dive is about 12 meters deep on average, with the deepest wreck at about 17 meters. Visibility is best along the 12 meter depth line, gets worse deeper in. There are ropes that mark out the trail, and these are encrusted with soft corals and teeming with sea-horses (if you get your eye in). There are nudibranch, plenty of small fish (Tharwyne, Gobi, Bullseye...) and of course; the wrecks. There are about 4 or five hulls of small ships, and two fuselages of planes. One of the planes is nicely recogniseable and large enough to explore inside-out. A very nice dive if done before it's silted up by learner-divers. Check bouyancy and take a torch...and keep an eye out for the sea-horses.

Source http://www.bdewaele.be/divealbums.htm

Bert De Waele

Tectonics Special Research Centre

The University of Western Australia M004

School of Earth and Geographical Sciences

35 Stirling Highway

Crawley, Western Australia 6009

http://www.bdewaele.be

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