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Location |
Camp Cove, Watsons Bay, NSW |
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Date |
12 September 2014 |
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Time |
8:07pm - 9:49pm |
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Details |
The water was very calm and there was hardly a ripple when we got in at the beach. We descended and I immediately found things to photograph, including cuttlefish, striped pyjama squid and seahorses. I got so caught up in the photography that I got separated from the others and did the whole dive on my own.
I followed the rocks on the eastern side to the north turned and came back over the sand. While swimming around over the sand I found a southern calamari squid that was happy to hang around to be photographed as well as a s southern bottletail squid. I haven't seen many southern bottletail squid before so it was a bit of a thrill. I tried to shoot some video of it but it didn't turn out all that good.
I swam over the sand all the way to the reef in the centre of the bay and then came back along the beach. Close to the beach I found a blue-line octopus and a few pleurobranchs. There was also a few more striped pyjama squid.
After 100 or so minutes I got out expecting to be the last one back on only to find that the others were still in the water. As usual, Camp Cove rocked. |
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Seas |
Flat |
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Visibility |
5+ metres |
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Duration |
102 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
6.6 m |
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Average depth |
4.3 m |
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Water temperature |
16.3°C |
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Site Map |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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Low |
4:13am |
0.21m |
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High |
10:29am |
1.72m |
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Low |
4:45pm |
0.26m |
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High |
10:52pm |
1.54m |
Video |
Video captured with Nikon D7000 with 60mm f/2.8D lens plus Sola 600 and 2 x Ikelite DS161 video lights
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Camera gear |
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Camera |
Nikon D7000 |
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Lens |
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D |
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Housing |
Ikelite 6801.70 |
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Lens port |
Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41 |
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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.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.2 m.
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Sea hare, Syphonota geographica. 2.2 m.
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Short-fin eel, Anguilla australis. 2.7 m.
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White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.7 m.
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Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3 m.
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Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3 m.
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Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 2.9 m.
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Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3 m.
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Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 2.9 m.
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Southern peacock sole, Pardachirus hedleyi. 2.3 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.2 m.
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Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 3.9 m.
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Juvenile green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 4 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.7 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 4.8 m.
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Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 5.1 m.
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Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 4.8 m.
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Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 4.9 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 4.9 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6 m.
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Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 6 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.1 m.
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Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 5.6 m.
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Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 5.8 m.
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Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 5.8 m.
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Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.3 m.
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Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.2 m.
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Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.3 m.
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Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.2 m.
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Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.3 m.
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Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.3 m.
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Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.2 m.
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Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.3 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.9 m.
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Bobbit worm. 3.8 m.
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Bobbit worm. 3.9 m.
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Bobbit worm. 3.9 m.
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Pleurobranch, Euselenops luniceps. 3.5 m.
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Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.7 m.
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Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.6 m.
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Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.6 m.
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Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.7 m.
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White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.6 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 3.5 m.
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Pleurobranch, Euselenops luniceps. 2.7 m.
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Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 2.2 m.
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