Norfolk Island Paintball

Its all about the Scuba Diving on Norfolk Island

As far as we are concerned anyway!

But every now and then the prevailing winds take their toll and diving just is not possible; one of the not too many down sides of living in an island paradise I guess. Luckily 'paradise' has a ton of other activities we can do when we aren't in the beautiful waters that surround Norfolk Island.

Not diving on Norfolk with Bounty Divers, then Paintball. A young guy named Mark has taken over the Norfolk Paintball and has breathed new life into it. Complete with a set schedule and a new location it makes for a fantastic Norfolk adventure! Located in the post card perfection of Bumboras on the south side of Norfolk Island, paintball takes on a whole new edge.

It's easy for Mark to find a few people on Norfolk to join you for a fight, but with the amount of fun had at each hard hitting adventure run, you won't have any trouble rounding up a few people for the Bounty Divers team.

Book this and many other Norfolk adventure activities at the Bounty Divers store for convenience and freindly service with a cup of coffee/tea.

Norfolk Island, Bounty Divers and Outer Edge Magazine

Outer Edge Magazine

The Ultimate Adventure Magazine

Bounty Divers where lucky enough to host Mr Chris Ord recently from Outer Edge Magazine. Chris was here to seek all the out there activities that Norfolk had to offer and he was not dissappointed. The main focus for his trip to Norfolk was the Scuba Diving with Bounty Divers and the kayaking with Tropical Adventures which can also be organised at the Bounty Divers office.

The kayaking was extrordinary, with a circum navigation of the island over three days. The next issue will have the article featuring the kayaking and I am sure it will be awesome

However the article covering the diving was insanely good, even though the weather was not kind to us and we were not able to get into the fully hard core dive sites that we had provisionally planned. We did manage to introduce Chris to one of our smaller sharks, not the first time that Chris has dived with a shark, but the first time that he has seen one that was not enticed in by burly, just there of its own accord. It was only a small Gallapogas shark, which are quite common here on norfolk Island and the smaller islands that surround Norfolk.

Sharks on Norfolk are usually very well fed as we have no commercial fishing industry here allowing fish stocks to remain very high. Another reason why the diving around Norfolk Island is first rate.

Anyway, getting back to the article in Outer Edge Magazine. Chris has done an amazing job of combining all the usual information that people like to write about Norfolk Island, history, Bounty etc but he has managed to do it in an interesting way that does not get boring. I am a little concerned about the image that he has created for me as beast of a diver and my passion for Norfolk Islands marine environment including sharks. It will be a bit of a let down for people travelling to Norfolk Island to dive with Bounty Divers when they arrive and see what I am really like.

Anyway the article is awesome. The magazine is awesome. And you should really buy a copy and have a look.

We hope that we can get Chris or any one of the other guys out here again at some stage, maybe next time we will catch a break with the weather and really get into some awesome diving. Then I would bet these guys would write an article that would completely blow us away.

http://www.outer-edge.com.au/

Norfolk Island Coral Watch Bounty Divers

Coral Watch Program

Bounty Divers Norfolk Island

For the last three years with the assistance of the Ivens Buffett (toon) trust fund, Bounty Divers has been operating a Coral Monitoring program. The program is the Coral Monitoring program from the University Of Queensland. This program is also supported worldwide by the PADI organisation through there Project Aware foundation.

The project is a low tech high coverage attack at global Coral conditions.

The project on Norfolk Island has been very very succesful in regards to awareness and training by local school students. Bounty Divers is very proud that the funding we recieved from the Toon trust, that we thought would fund one year, has been stretched over the last two and a half year. The data that has been collected has been forwarded to the UoQ for analysis and comparison to global coral reef trends.

The coral on Norfolk Island is very healthy and this has been reflected in the data that has been collected.

Divers of Norfolk Island

Samantha

Samantha hates being called Samantha and would prefer to be called Sam, thats why we call her Samantha...

Sam visits Norfolk with her Gran every year and has been here alot of times. Sam this year decided that she would like to complete her Advance Diver Course here on Norfolk with Bounty Divers and then went on to complete heaps of dives with us while she was here. She just couldnt get enough of the wicked dive sites and the pleasant company at Bounty Divers.

Samantha will be back this summer and getting into some more diving again. Looking forward to seeing you at Bounty Divers again soon SAMANTHA...

Bounty Divers - Norfolk Island

Rob Morley

As much as I hate posting Robs pictures, they show my photos up for the shockers that they are, I thought it would be the best thing to show off how great the diving really is here on Norfolk Island.

Rob came to visit Norfolk when Chantelle and I had only just taken over Bounty Divers. Rob is one of the first serious divers and serious photographers to visit us here on Norfolk.

Diving with Rob was a pleasure and I'm sure you will enjoy his pictures as much as we do.

DOLPHINS

DOLPHINS Earlier this month we were diving from the shore at Cascade pier. What was just our normal shore dive, maximum depth of 16m and 20 - 30 meters vis

The coolest thing ever happened we were swimming along and two wild dolphins swam along in front of us.

Dolphins are commonly seen around Norfolk, but this is the first time that Bounty Divers has seen them underwater while diving. What an amazing experience and the guys that were diving with us could not believe what they were seeing, especially during a shore dive.

Almost all the dives on Norfolk Island are close to the island and would more than likely be shore dives, however the towering cliff faces make it difficult to get gear down to the water and back... making boat diving absolutely essential.

Getting back to the Dolphins. I have been very lucky personally to have encountered wild dolphins while diving. The first time was in Mozambique and the second time was right here at home on Norfolk. But if I get to see wild dolphins in the water again some time in my diving years I will be a very happy camper.

Sick turtle Norfolk Island

Sick Turtle on Norfolk Island

This little fella was found on Slaughter Bay Norfolk Island one evening. He was not doing very well at all. The local vet gave him a shot of anti biotics and hoped for the best. The very next morning he was gone and it would seem that all was fine. He was so bad as you can see from one of the photos he couldnt even pull his head out of the sand washing around him. So the fact that he had moved at all over the night makes us think that the shot did the trick.

Bounty Divers quite often sees turtles while snorkelling and diving around the island. The majority are green turtle however we do see others from time to time.

Where these turtles come from or are born is very much a topic to argue on the island, but at

Bounty Divers we do not believe that they are born locally. Without serious research this argument will never be settled. Regardless of where they come from we do see alot of them and often, however they arent used to humans due to the relatively low number of visitors here on Norfolk, so do not tend to hang around for very long once they realise we are in the water with them.

If you ever get to Norfolk Island and get the chance to come diving with us here at Bounty Divers we will try our very best to dive with these magnificent creatures. SORRY, no money back guarantees though