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30/10/2006: "THE SIXTIES ..... Aust Skindivers Magazine cover pictures"
October 2006 will feature original text from Sea Diary (1963) interesting today as it details our first travels with friends in the era of early underwater photography when spear fishing was the main thing everyone did. This was to change a few years later as other opportunities emerged, travel and film making replaced the spearing of fish and sharks as a greater appreciation of the sea began.
This was one of our favorite expeditions. No complete 16mm film record remains today.
Back then we were traveling the coast and paying for petrol and food by selling lobsters we’d catch and fish we’d spear.
It does not happen today, fish and lobsters don’t exist in plentiful supply like they once did.
Today we'd sell photo’s to cover costs for the travels if we were doing it all over again with modern equipment.
Our 1963 planned destination were the islands off Proserpine. We didn’t get there. There was no need to venture past Yeppoon. Anyway I had an accident and returned to Sydney.
Our camping stops over some weeks were: South West Rocks, Woolgoolga, Tweed Heads, Point Lookout, Yeppoon - Keppel Islands, North West Island, Tweed Heads, return to Sydney.
The covers of Australian Skindivers Magazine 1962 to 1969, designed by Jack Evans capture the evolution in underwater photography and our attitudes.
Dead sharks are gradually replaced with live penguins and the mysterious and challenging depths of Mount Gambier's answer to the Silver Springs of Florida.
The Sixties was a most adventurous time for underwater exploring. In 1971 fathom (TM) magazine began and scuba diving instruction replaced spear fishing and shark hunting as the new opportunities as a new chapter in underwater marine awareness began.
