Dive at The Monument, Kurnell, NSW on 9/6/13

Dive at The Monument, Kurnell, NSW on 9/6/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

09 June, 2013

Time

8:29am - 9:44am

Details

Entered at the "bay" around the corner from the flag poles and headed north to find the wall. Swam along the wall to the location where we found "Jaques" last week. He was attached to the same sponge as last week. Sheree spotted a female at the base of the wall only a few metres from "Jaques". She was a new seahorse and is now called "Jill". We then turned and headed towards The Steps.

We stopped at "Fernando"'s rock but we could not find him. We then kept going towards The Steps.

At the location where we'd previously seen "Honey" and "Trevor", I first looked for "Honey", but could not find her. I found "Lisa" on the sponges on top of the rock she'd been behind last week. "Trevor" was back at his usual spot amongst the sea tulips. I did one more search for "Honey" and spotted her on the rock next to where she'd been previously but right down at the sand. We then headed back to The Monument.

On the way back to The Monument, Sheree spotted a juvenile weedy sea dragon. Back at The Monument we did one more search for "Fernando" but couldn't find him. We exited at the entry point.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

74 minutes

Maximum depth

14.1 m

Average depth

11.3 m

Water temperature

18.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.

Low

2:50am

0.46m

High

8:45am

1.33m

Low

2:15pm

0.59m

High

8:48pm

1.80m

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.