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The underwater slates and notebooks shown here are a must have item for all scuba divers, allowing you communicate quickly and accurately or just make notes or maps. Easily cleaned off after the dive, a diver slate or note book should be with you on every dive.

Technical Tip

Divers have tried a lot of ways to clean their slate and/or wetnotes: kitchen cleansers like Ajax and Jif, as well as toothpaste and sandpaper. But they all pretty much make a mess and are not very handy either. The solution is Trident Erase-A-Slate. It looks like a small sponge, but it's not abrasive and it's not soapy. To remove your carbon/graphite pencil notes in a moment just wet it and wipe. We aren't talking elbow grease... just wipe. We don't know how it works, but it works great and there is no soapy residue so you can just throw them in your dive bag or dry box.



Royal Beach

Shore Dive Shore Dive | Shore access Shore access

Ideal For Snorkelling Inside Port Phillip Open Water Rated Reef Dive Site Spearfishing Site

Royal Beach Dive
Royal Beach Dive with Maori Octopus
© Phil Watson

Depth: 10 m (33 ft)

Level: Open Water and beyond.

Royal Beach at Mornington is out the front of the old Royal Hotel. It's a small pocket beach, just 150 metres long, lying between two 10 to 20 metres high, red sandstone bluffs, and backed by grassy bluffs and the Esplanade. The narrow beach looks attractive at high tide, but at low tide exposes a continuous rock and reef flat, with deep water only out beyond the rocks.

Access is down a short scrambly sloped track opposite the end of Canterbury Street. Off the beach, there is a wide rubble and rock-strewn seafloor with small fish and crustaceans. A good beginner's dive.

See WillyWeather (Royal Beach) as a guide for the tide times and the height of the tide.

Boon Wurrung / Bunurong country
Boon Wurrung / Bunurong country

Traditional Owners — This dive site is in the traditional Country of the Boon Wurrung / Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. This truly ancient Country includes parts of Port Phillip, from the Werribee River in the north-west, down to Wilson's Promontory in the south-east, including the Mornington Peninsula, French Island and Phillip Island, plus Western Port. We wish to acknowledge the Boon Wurrung as Traditional Owners. We pay respect to their Ancestors and their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge Bunjil the Creator Spirit of this beautiful land, who travels as an eagle, and Waarn, who protects the waterways and travels as a crow, and thank them for continuing to watch over this Country today and beyond.

 

Royal Beach Location Map

Latitude: 38° 13.066′ S   (38.217763° S / 38° 13′ 3.95″ S)
Longitude: 145° 1.987′ E   (145.033114° E / 145° 1′ 59.21″ E)

Datum: WGS84 | Google Map | Get directions
Added: 2012-07-22 09:00:00 GMT, Last updated: 2022-03-22 15:35:34 GMT
Source: Google Earth
Nearest Neighbour: Schnapper Point, Mornington Pier, 557 m, bearing 354°, N
Mornington, Mornington Peninsula, Port Phillip.
Depth: 10 m.



DISCLAIMER: No claim is made by The Scuba Doctor as to the accuracy of the dive site coordinates listed here. Should anyone decide to use these GPS marks to locate and dive on a site, they do so entirely at their own risk. Always verify against other sources.

The marks come from numerous sources including commercial operators, independent dive clubs, reference works, and active divers. Some are known to be accurate, while others may not be. Some GPS marks may even have come from maps using the AGD66 datum, and thus may need be converted to the WGS84 datum. To distinguish between the possible accuracy of the dive site marks, we've tried to give each mark a source of GPS, Google Earth, or unknown.

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