Dive at The Steps, Kurnell, NSW on 1/4/14

Dive Details

Location

Date

01 April, 2014

Time

10:54am - 12:10pm

Details

The second dive for my birthday was at The Steps as Sheree had missed the pygmy pipehorses on the first dive. The tide had changed and was now outgoing so the visibility would not be great but after we jumped in it wasn't too bad, probably at least 5 metres.

We descended to the sand line and made our way towards The Leap. We saw a weedy seadragon and a couple of reaper cuttlefish before we reached the basket star. At the basket star we headed up the reef to the pygmy pipehorses which Sheree got to see this time. We then scoured the whole area for the Miamira magnifica nudibranchs. We checked all the rocks we'd previously seen it as well as the rocks in between and expanded the search area to beyond where we'd seen it. We could not find it anywhere. Sheree did find a very cool rock flathead while we were looking.

We then started on our way back to The Steps but the visibility had decreased somewhat so we kept getting separated. We'd find each other again but it was not long before we were separated again. I looked carefully for anglers and in particular "Big John" but did not find them. We did our safety stop and exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

71 minutes

Maximum depth

15.1 m

Average depth

10.7 m

Water temperature

21.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

4:15am

0.27m

High

10:23am

1.63m

Low

4:25pm

0.34m

High

10:41pm

1.80m

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.