Dive Details
Location
Date
07 June, 2013
Time
5:36pm - 7:45pm
Details
Entered at the beach and swam through the shallows to the right of the beach looking for interesting critters. There were quite a few pleurobranchs about. Headed along the wall where we encountered a pair of robust ghost pipefish.
We headed further along the wall and then turned and came back along the wall to the ghost pipefish but could only find the larger of the two.
We then headed out on to the sand looking for cephalopods, finding 2-3 pyjama squid and a dumpling squid as well as a few calamari squid.
Back in the shallows near the beach we found a bubble shell, a pleurobranch I've never seen before and a cephalospid.
Exited at the beach.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Slight
Visibility
5 metres
Duration
129 minutes
Maximum depth
5.9 m
Average depth
3.7 m
Water temperature
18.3°C
Site Map
Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx
Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
1:33am
0.51m
High
7:22am
1.35m
Low
1:00pm
0.56m
High
7:34pm
1.77m
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D300
Lens
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D
Housing
Ikelite 6812.3
Lens port
Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41
Strobe
2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS161
Photographs
Depth information, where present, indicates the depth of the camera when the photograph was taken and can be used to approximate the depth of the subject.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 2.4 m.
Predatory worm. 2.6 m.
Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 2.7 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.9 m.
Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 3.1 m.
Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchus peroni. 3.2 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.7 m.
Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 3.7 m.
Scorpionfish. 4.3 m.
Robust ghost pipefish, Solenostomus cyanopterus. 3.8 m.
Robust ghost pipefish, Solenostomus cyanopterus. 3.7 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 4.6 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 5.1 m.
Umbrella shell, Umbraculum umbraculum. 4.7 m.
Robust ghost pipefish, Solenostomus cyanopterus. 4 m.
Robust ghost pipefish, Solenostomus cyanopterus. 3.9 m.
Velvetfish, Aploactisoma milesii. 4.4 m.
Prawn, Melicertus sp. 4.8 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.8 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 5 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.9 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.9 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 4.1 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 4 m.
Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 3.8 m.
Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 3.8 m.
Southern dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica. 3.7 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 3.2 m.
Roughy, Trachichthys australis. 2.7 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 2.7 m.
Nudibranch, Austraeolis ornata. 3.3 m.
Nudibranch, Austraeolis ornata. 3.2 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.9 m.
Bubble shell, Hydatina physis. 3.1 m.
Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.3 m.
Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchaea brockii.
Pleurobranch, Pleurobranchaea brockii.
Cephalaspid, Philinopsis speciosa.
Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis.