Dive at The Monument, Kurnell, NSW on 14/6/13

Dive at The Monument, Kurnell, NSW on 14/6/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

14 June, 2013

Time

8:34am - 10:08am

Details

Entered at the bay around the corner from the flagpoles and headed south east towards The Steps. Went to the area where "Honey", "Trevor" and now "Lisa" are normally found. Both "Lisa" and "Trevor" were in the same places as last time. "Honey" could not be found. There was an adult weedy seadragon on the sand.

We headed back towards The Monument, finding. At the split rock we couldn't find "Fernando" or "Kimi".

We then headed north west to the spot we'd previously found "Jaques". He was not on the sponge he'd been on the last two occasions but was as the based of the wall with "Jill" and a new male seahorse, "Jackson". While "Jackson" was hanging on the a piece of kelp, both "Jaques" and "Jill" were loose on the bottom. I hope they hang on before the rough weather comes.

We continued around the corner, searching numerous sponge covered boulders for more seahorses. We found none, but did fine some Phyllodesmium poindimiei nudibranchs.

We headed into shallower water for the swim back to the beach when Ian spotted a smallish giant cuttlefish amongst the kelp. We exited at the beach.

Buddy

Ian Jackson

Seas

Slight

Visibility

8-10 metres

Duration

93 minutes

Maximum depth

13.8 m

Average depth

10.0 m

Water temperature

16.9°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

6:00am

0.51m

High

12:09pm

1.32m

Low

5:42pm

0.72m

High

11:59pm

1.60m

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.