Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on Saturday 3 January 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Saturday 3 January 2015

Time

7:22am - 8:45am

Details

Conditions at Bare Island were fantastic again. There was almost no wind and no swell. I was able to jump in on the western side of the island, just south of the north west corner. I descended and this time headed south west at around 240°. I wanted to see how close I could get to the seahorses. I still hit the wall but this time I was right near the end and only had a very short swim to the seahorses. I got thee in under 7 minutes. Visibility was around 10 metres. I spotted "Andrey" almost immediately because he's yellow. It took me a little longer to find "Della" even though she was out in the open as she usually is. It took a bit of hunting to find "Tomas".

I headed along the reef for a short distance and then headed north up a gutter where I found a large red indianfish. When I approached this guy he started swaying to and fro and with each to, it moved more than the fro so the net was for it to move along.

After leaving the red indianfish I headed north to find the shallow wall and then I followed this around to the north west of the island. I had plenty of air so I started looking for pygmy pipehorses. I spent a lot of time on (what I think is) Seahorse Rock but only found a cuttlefish, a few sea hares and a couple of interesting nudibranchs. As I headed towards the exit I checked out more rocks but I was still not able to locate the rock that has a lot of pygmy pipehorses on it.

I did my safety stop on the way back to the exit and got out just to the west of the ramp.

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 to 10 metres

Duration

83 minutes

Maximum depth

17.9 m

Average depth

13.0 m

Water temperature

19.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

1:16am

0.47m

High

7:51am

1.74m

Low

2:33pm

0.38m

High

8:24pm

1.31m

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.