It has been long overdue, the proposed Woodman Point munitions jetty upgrade is now moved to the design phase. The upper section of the jetty is run down, the local fishers make a real mess of the jetty, below the surface, the bottom is littered with fishing tackle and other fishing related rubbish.

Since I have been sailing throughout the summer, one day a week out on the water is enough for me. So diving in Perth has fallen by the wayside, for years I had limited myself to diving overseas in tropical waters until covid killed that life. So it has been years since I have dived in Perth, something that I would never have thought would have happened to me.

I used to be a winter diver, I still could be I suppose but now I spend weekends 75 south of Perth at the weekend house. Those winter days diving in Cockburn Sound are cold but not as cold as diving in the Swan River. I no longer dive with a drysuit so a wetsuit is all I wear. The problem was I had dived the sites so many times that it had become all too familiar, the shore dives were cheap – just the cost of an air fill.

What was good about diving on the Woodmans Point Munitions Jetty was the growth on the jetty vertical supports. The sponge growth on the piers was fantastic, there were fine telesto corals and fish life. The bottom was silty, this is the result of the dredging of Cockburn Sound and the destruction of the natural seagrass.