Kayaking is growing in popularity for many reasons.
The sport is now more accessible to all.
Kayaks are now made of rotomoulded plastic, Kevlar and fiberglass that greatly reduces the need for exceptional upper body strength in order to move and carry boats. A kayak they can handle on and off the car, and they can use it without anyone around to help them.
Kayak diving and fishing.
Dive boats and RIB's certainly have their place (we've got one) but there are many advantages to diving/fishing from a kayak. Conventional shore diving/fishing can be limiting and frustrating because there are many excellent dives that are just offshore, on reefs, islands, wrecks and at the base of cliffs, that can only be reached by boat. Most of these can be reached on a Kayak.
You can either paddle, pedal or sail out, moor up or drag the kayaks ashore for a shore dive, or use an anchor for diving/fishing offshore.
You have to be organised with regard to equipment etc. Kayaking fishing, like diving is a wet environment susceptible to change, specialist waterproof equipment is required to survive these harsh wet elements. Diving equipment is designed for this.
Reef Dive | Boat access
Depth: 2 m (6.56 ft) to 12 m (39 ft)
Level: Open Water and beyond.
Flat Rock is a boat diving site which lies west of Port Fairy on Victoria's Discovery Coast. It's a good location to get a taste of the boulder shore and reef complexes found between Port Fairy to the east and The Crags to the west.
The depth at Flat Rock ranges from 2 to 12 metres and features endless cryptic habitat for the usual inhabitants. On the right day it's possible to slither up into the gutters and rock pools which dot this shoreline.
Location: Port Fairy, Victoria 3284
Ideal Conditions: This boat dive site is prone to surge and swell and is best dived in very good conditions with a low swell with light offshore north-westerly to north-easterly winds. See WillyWeather (Little River Beach) as a guide for the tide times and the height of the tide.
Boat Launching: Flat Rock is reached by boat heading out from the Port Fairy, Griffiths Street Boat Ramp.
{{southern-ocean-warning}}Divers have the opportunity to catch Abalone at this dive site. Remember your catch bag, legal abalone tool, current Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence, and abalone measure. Please abide by all current fishing regulations if you intend to catch abalone.
See article-catching-abalone for practical abalone hunting advice from The Scuba Doctor, plus melbourne-abalone-dives for a list of other Abalone dive sites near Melbourne.
Divers have the opportunity to catch Southern Rock Lobster (aka Crayfish) at this dive site. Remember your catch bag, current Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence, rock lobster measure, and cray tags. Once you get back to the dive boat, or shore, make sure you clip the tail and tag your Crayfish as per Fisheries requirements. Please abide by all current fishing regulations if you intend to catch crays. See article-catching-crayfish for practical cray hunting advice from The Scuba Doctor, plus melbourne-cray-dives for a list of other crayfish dive sites near Melbourne. For tips on cooking your Crays, please see article-cooking-crayfish.
Traditional Owners — This dive site is in the traditional Country of the Eastern Maar people of south-western Victoria between the Shaw and Eumerella Rivers and from Yambuk in the south to beyond Lake Linlithgow in the north. This truly ancient Country extends as far north as Ararat and encompasses the coastal townships of Port Fairy in the west, Warrnambool, Peterborough, Port Campbell, Apollo Bay, Lorne, and Airies Inlet in the east, including the Great Ocean Road area. It also stretches 100 metres out to sea from low tide and therefore includes the iconic Twelve Apostles. "Eastern Maar" is a name adopted by the people who identify as Maar, Eastern Gunditjmara, Tjap Wurrung, Peek Whurrong, Kirrae Whurrung, Kuurn Kopan Noot and/or Yarro waetch (Tooram Tribe) amongst others. We wish to acknowledge the Eastern Maar as Traditional Owners. We pay respect to their Ancestors and their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Flat Rock Location Map
Latitude: 38° 23.779′ S (38.396314° S / 38° 23′ 46.73″ S)
Longitude: 142° 11.920′ E (142.198674° E / 142° 11′ 55.23″ E)
Datum: WGS84 |
Google Map
Added: 2021-07-25 08:32:08 GMT, Last updated: 2022-05-24 18:47:39 GMT
Source: GPS (verified)
Nearest Neighbour: Little River Beach, 1,088 m, bearing 284°, WNW
Port Fairy, Discovery Coast.
Depth: 2 to 12 m.
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