Despite the poor visibility at The Steps a couple of hours earlier, we figured we dive The Leap. The Leap is deeper and it was later into the high tide so more clean water should have flowed it. We were to be proven wrong.
The entry at The Leap was straight forward and the initial view of the visibility from the surface was not bad. As we descended it did not improve at all and probably got worse. The visibility was that poor it was very difficult to make out landmarks and so I took us far too north on the way to the sand line. It is difficult to be certain, because the visibility was so bad, but I think we hit the sand line somewhere around Seahorse Rock. Unfortunately, I thought we were a lot further south and as we headed north west along the sand line, I didn't realise until we were well past "Southern Cross".
Eventually I worked out where we were by the time we got to the high rock. I was then able to find the basket star and the Miamira magnifica nudibranch. We also saw two weedy seadragons in the same area we had dived on the earlier dive even though we didn't see any on that.
Shortly after the M. magnifica we headed to the exit for a safety stop and then got out at The Steps. That was the worst visibility I have ever experienced at The Leap. |
