Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on Sunday 19 April 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Sunday 19 April 2015

Time

7:28am - 9:06am

Details

It was going to get rough later today so I got to Bare Island nice and early to ensure I got a dive in before the conditions deteriorated. It was actually very calm and I could have dived anywhere around the island. I decided to look for pygmies on the west reef.

I got in on the northern side of the island just east of the pool. I descended and swam past the outboard motor and up over the ledge. I stayed on the sand looking for pygmies as I swam. At the rock I'd seen two pygmies on Friday I found the same two pygmies again: a male and a smaller one, possibly a female. They were hanging on to the same alga.

I headed down the slope and found the two pygmies near the metal skeleton. I went further down the slope looking for more pygmies and found a juvenile on the rock before Pygmy Rock. It is possible there were actually two juveniles because I kept finding one in a different spot but I never saw two at the same time.

I swam even further down but did not find any more pygmies. I came back up the slope, finding the juvenile and the two near the metal skeleton on the way back.

When I got to the rock in front of the boulders I could only find the male pipehorse. The other may have still been there because its camouflage was great. I swam back along the boulders doing my safety stop along the way. I exited near the ramp.

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

97 minutes

Maximum depth

12.8 m

Average depth

9.6 m

Water temperature

19.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

2:26am

0.23m

High

8:34am

1.71m

Low

2:36pm

0.29m

High

8:56pm

1.93m

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.