Dive Details |
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Location |
Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW |
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Date |
Monday 29 December 2014 |
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Time |
10:28am - 11:47am |
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Details |
I decided to revisit Bare Island as the forecast was for am easterly swell. The water around the island was flat and looked clear when I arrived despite it being only shortly after low tide. I jumped in just south of the north western corner of the island and descended. The visibility was only 3 to 5 metres here. I headed south west at a bearing of around 225° as I wanted to get as close as possible to the seahorses. This took me to the wall but near the end so I didn't have far to travel to reach the seahorses. The visibility here was at least 10 metres.
I saw "Della", the pot-bellied seahorse, from around 8 metres away but it took me a lot longer to find "Tomas" and I also found "Andrey" who I couldn't find last week.
After looking around the seahorses for a while, I headed west along the reef. I found a red indianfish hiding beside a sponge.
I headed north to find the shallow wall and then followed it north west and then north around the island. As I got near the north west reef I started looking for pygmy pipehorses. I didn't find any but did find to tiny sea hares, Elysia sp. as well as a girdled pipefish.
I headed up the slope and across the northern side of the island and exited to the west of the ramp. |
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Seas |
Slight |
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Visibility |
3-10 metres |
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Duration |
79 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
17.2 m |
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Average depth |
12.5 m |
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Water temperature |
17.5°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Botany Bay AEDT |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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High |
3:09am |
1.47m |
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Low |
9:10am |
0.56m |
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High |
3:16pm |
1.46m |
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Low |
9:45pm |
0.40m |
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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Sea star, Petricia vernicina. 15.7 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Della"). 15.6 m.
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Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 15.8 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Tomas"). 15.4 m.
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Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Della"). 15.7 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Andrey"). 16.5 m.
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Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Andrey"). 16.6 m.
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Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 16.7 m.
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Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 16.3 m.
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Mosaic leatherjacket, Eubalichthys mosaicus. 15.6 m.
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Sea hare, Elysia sp. 12.8 m.
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Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 11.4 m.
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Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 11.3 m.
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Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 9.4 m.
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Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 3.5 m.
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