Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on 20/10/13

Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on 20/10/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

20 October, 2013

Time

8:36am - 9:59am

Details

Entered on the south east corner of the island and descend in a southerly direction to near the sand line. We came on a large reef of sponges and followed it to the west, heading for the deep wall. Part way along the reef I found a red indianfish.

This reef must have gone off at a tangent to wall as we ended up a long way from the wall. We had to back track along the reef. Along the way I got separated from Wayne and Tim and had to make my own way back. I didn't have a compass, although I think that was an advantage because it is not obvious in which direction you should head unless you know exactly how far around the island you are. I just kept heading veering left as I back tracked along the reef jumping from reef to reef until I came to the wall. I was a west of the deep wall but knew I could follow that around the island, which I did.

As I approached 50 bar, I headed into shallower water and cut across the north west corner of the island coming through just to the west of the "shark fin" in the sand. I exited at the "boat ramp".

Buddy

Wayne Ladkin

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

82 minutes

Maximum depth

19.2 m

Average depth

13.7 m

Water temperature

17.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

3:28am

0.35m

High

9:49am

1.73m

Low

4:14pm

0.30m

High

10:15pm

1.42m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

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.