Nautilus Scuba Club Cairns

Underwater Photo Competition Awards Night
2021-06-16 19:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Tanks Arts Centre – Tank 4, 46 Collins Ave, Edge Hill, QLD, 4870, Australia
This year, for the first time, the competition will take the form of a 3 week exhibition at the Tanks Art Centre open to the public.
The exhibition will run from the 28th May to the 20th of June. The Awards night will be on the 16th of June and will replace the June Club meeting.
There are some fantastic entries this year and while I was taking a look around on the weekend, other gallery visitors could be heard wowing at the images Nautili have produced!
The awards night will be a fantastic evening and we encourage all members to come if you can to see what other members have produced and show your support support!
Even if you have not entered the competition you might still come away with one of our lucky door prizes!
There will be a bar but unfortunately we could not provide nibbles this year as it was not practical under the council’s COVID requirements at the tanks.
I’d also like to remind entrants that unlike previous years where entrants could collect their photos at the end of the night, this year the photos need to remain up until the end of the exhibition on Sunday the 20th June, after that we will take them down make make sure we get them to you at a club meeting or otherwise.

Club Dive - Calypso (Port Douglas)
2021-06-12 | QLD
Join fellow Nautilus Club members on this planned Club Dive.
Details >>>HERE<<<

Underwater Photo Comp Exhibition
2021-05-28 - 2021-06-20 | QLD
3 week exhibition at the Tanks Art Centre; open to the public.
Details >>HERE<<

Nautilus Club Meeting
2021-05-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Junior Eisteddfod Hall, 67 Greenslopes Street, Edge Hill, QLD, 4870, Australia

Lady Elliot Island Trip
2021-05-25 - 2021-05-31 | Lady Elliot Island, Lady Elliot Island, Australia
A group of club members are headed to Lady Elliot Island for the manta season in May 2021 for a 6 nights/10 dives.
This trip is already fully booked, but if you are keen it may be possible to go on a wait list.
Details in the email sent to members on the 26th of November 2020.

Vanuatu Diving and WW2 History Zoom Presentation
2021-05-16 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
Deb from Diveplanit has prepared a fantastic presentation on diving, history and other activities for the Nautilus and NQUEC clubs. Deb will present in conjunction with operators from Vanuatu and a representative of the South Pacific WWII Museum.
The new South Pacific WWII Museum looks fantastic and it will be great to hear about it and some of the history from those in the know.
In the talk Deb will take us through the islands of Vanuatu and we will see everything from wreck dives both beginner and more advanced (Including the Coolidge of course), beautiful dives like the swim throughs at Tannas blue holes, history and things to do on your day off or with your non diving family.
The presentation will be recorded.
Join Zoom Meeting

Lady Bowen Wreck Dive Weekend
2021-05-15 - 2021-05-16 | Mission Beach: Clump Point Boat Ramp, Clump Point Boat Ramp, Mission Beach, QLD, Australia
Don’t miss this opportunity to dive the Lady Bowen wreck, just off the coast of Mission Beach with our friends at Mission Beach Dive.
Join fellow members on this club special dive event.
Details >>HERE<<

Committee Meeting
2021-05-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-04-14 07:00 - 21:00 | QLD
The committee meets every second Wednesday of the month. Club members are always welcome to join the meeting. Please contact the President if you wish to attend for details of the venue. The club loves your input and ideas!
Committee

Club Dive - P3 (Cairns)
2021-05-09 | QLD
Join fellow Nautilus Club members on this planned Club Dive.
This month’s operator is: Passions of Paradise out of Cairns
Details >>>HERE<<<

Nautilus Club Meeting
2021-04-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Junior Eisteddfod Hall, 67 Greenslopes Street, Edge Hill, QLD, 4870, Australia
Join us for a BBQ, drinks, updates on the activities of the club and a guest speaker. Non members are also welcome at our club meetings so don’t hesitate to invite your curious friends!
This months guest speaker is Azri Saparwan. Azri is from the Reef Restoration Foundation. Some of you may know him from volunteering for the foundation in the care and maintenance of the coral trees at Fitzroy Island.

Rum Runner - Holmes Reef
2021-04-23 - 2021-04-26 | QLD
Coral Reef Live-aboard Expedition
Join fellow members on this club special dive event.
Details >>HERE<<

Club Dive - April Calypso
2021-04-11 | QLD
Join fellow Nautilus Club members on this TENTATIVELY planned Club Dive.
This month’s operator is: Calypso out of (Port Douglas)
Details >>>HERE<<<

Club Meeting
2021-03-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Junior Eisteddfod Hall, 67 Greenslopes Street, Edge Hill, QLD, 4870, Australia
This month’s guest speaker is Russell Kelley giving his talk “Designing easy-to-use tools for building ocean literacy: the Coral Finder and the Reef Finder.”
Russell is of course behind the popular Reef Finder and Coral Finder identification field guides, you will probably seen one of them before in your travels
This club meeting will have additional COVID requirements.
You will need to wear a face mask to attend the meeting. If you have your own please bring it but if you don’t we will be handing out disposable masks on entry. If you don’t want to wear a mask and don’t have a recognised exemption please consider skipping this meeting.
Unfortunately we will also need to sit down for consumption of food or drink again. Naturally you are allowed to take off your mask while seated with food and drinks. These are the same rules cafes and restaurants will need to follow from this evening. In order to make that work we will bring the food service area back inside for this meeting.

DO NOT attend the meeting if you have been in the greater Brisbane region since the 20th of march, are are unwell, have any possible symptoms of COVID-19, suspect you may have been infected with COVID-19, have had close contact with a person diagnosed with COVID-19, or been advised by health authorities to self-isolate
Sit down to eat or drink
Wear a face mask during the meeting, unless seated to eat or drink
Sign in to the COVID register and use hand sanitiser on entry
Follow 1.5m social distancing during the meeting and while queuing, following markings where provided

Join us for our March club meeting. Guests are welcome.

Photoshop Tutorial
2021-03-17 18:30 | Cairns Colonial Club Resort, 18-26 Cannon Street, Manunda., QLD, 4870, Australia
In anticipation of the return of the Underwater Photo Competition for 2021, the amazing Phil Woodhead has kindly offered to run a Photoshop tutorial for club members.
The tutorial will be held on Wednesday the 17th of March at 6:30 PM at the Cairns Colonial Club in the Daintree Suite.
Please RSVP with Pete by emailing him at clubmembership@nautilus-scuba.net .

Zoom Presentation: Diving The Poor Knights Islands NZ
2021-03-14 17:00 - 19:00 | QLD
Simon from the NQUEC and Deb from Diveplanit have invited us to what should be a really interesting talk by Kate Malcolm of Dive! Tutukaka on the opportunities for diving the subtropical Poor Knights Islands group. With talk in the media just yesterday about two way travel bubbles, New Zealand could be your first option for those of you champing at the bit to get overseas to dive!
Kate will also to talk to us about diving the island nation of Niue, a limestone atoll with caverns, cave and unspoiled coral walls and dropoffs.
See the mailout to members for the zoom link.
