Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on Sunday 10 May 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Sunday 10 May 2015

Time

8:15am - 9:29am

Details

It was a beautiful morning albeit a bit cold and The Leap looked fantastic. The swell was less than yesterday but the surface water was still a little bit murky. We jumped in, descended and headed out at a baring of 90-100°, Sheree leading the way. We ended up a fair way down the wall and the visibility there was at least 10 metres. Everything looked clean.

We swam along the wall to the north west. When we got to Pygmy Rock we stopped to look for pygmy pipehorses. I managed to find the pygmy I'd seen yesterday. It was almost in the same spot on the rock. We didn't find any others.

We continued on to Seahorse Rock. We looked for seahorses as we went and also around Seahorse Rock but found none.

We swam on to Seadragon Alley where we saw four weedy seadragons, including the juvenile from yesterday. I had previously seen the other three before, including the one with the wavy body.

In the middle of Seadragon Alley we swam up to the crevice where the pineapplefish had been. They weren't there but there was a school of tripe catfish that kept stiring up the bottom. There was also a roughy (AKA Grumpy Fish) there. We headed back to Seadragon Alley. Just after Seadragon Alley, Sheree pointed out another juvenile weedy, the same size as the other one.

We headed up the reef around Big Rock and continued along the top of the reef. Sheree pointed out two more weedy seadragons, both of which I had seen previously.

We swam to the boulders and did our safety stop just past the Plesiastrea colonies and exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

74 minutes

Maximum depth

21.1 m

Average depth

14.8 m

Water temperature

17.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

12:12am

1.71m

Low

7:04am

0.47m

High

1:09pm

1.34m

Low

6:44pm

0.69m

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.