Dive Details
Location
Date
Saturday 2 May 2015
Time
8:06am - 9:47am
Details
Botany Bay is still slowly improving after the "super storm" and another one was hitting north-eastern NSW and south-eastern Queensland causing a large swell off Sydney. Fortunately, the swell was from the north east and Bare Island is largely protected.
We jumped in on the northern side of the island about halfway between the ramp and the pool. The visibility on the surface was still down a bit but much better than even Wednesday. We descended and at the sand the visibility was around 4 metres.
We followed the reef to the west, over the outboard motor, the shelf and over the sand. We went pretty slowly, looking for pygmy pipehorses along the way.
We went slowly down the slope and at the rocks with pink sea tulips I went to look for the tiny juvenile pygmy pipehorse Kim had found there on Wednesday. I was pleasantly surprised to find it quite quickly.
We headed further down the slope and I looked for ages for the other juvenile I'd seen on Wednesday. I'm pretty sure this one was the same one I'd seen the Sunday before the "super storm". I was not able to find it.
I only got as far as Pygmy Rock (just past where I was looking for the second juvenile) when it was time to turn around. On the way back we stopped at the tiny juvenile and then headed up the slope and around to the exit. We got out where we'd got in.
Buddy
Kim Dinh
Seas
Surgy
Visibility
2-4 metres
Duration
100 minutes
Maximum depth
11.5 m
Average depth
9.0 m
Water temperature
19.1°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
1:07am
0.55m
High
7:02am
1.50m
Low
1:05pm
0.49m
High
7:29pm
1.67m
Camera gear
Camera
Nikon D300
Lens
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D
Housing
Ikelite 6812.3
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.
Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 10 m.
Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 9.8 m.