Dive Details |
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Location |
Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW |
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Date |
Wednesday 20 May 2015 |
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Time |
11:18am - 12:47pm |
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Details |
The bay was even calmer today so we decided to start around the corner on the western side of the island. I was hoping to find the yellow pot-bellied seahorse that Ben and I had seen just after the storm. Kim got in near the ramp and I got in just to the east of the pool. It was actually calm enough to get in on the western side of the wall but I was carrying a pony bottle slung under my left arm and I wasn't sure how difficult it would be. We swam on the surface around the corner to the western side of the island before descending.
We headed in a south-westerly direction until we reached around 12 metres on one of the sponge gardens. We then headed north, north west. Kim found a red indianfish.
We followed the reef around to the corner and then headed north until we reached the corner near the caves. Here I found a couple of Flabellina rubrolineata nudibranchs on hydroids. These were probably the same two from a couple of weeks ago.
We continued around the corner and up the slope. I found a juvenile pygmy pipehorse in the same location as yesterday, probably the same one.
Further up the slope I looked on the rocks with the pink sea tulips for the other juvenile pygmy but still couldn't find it.
I caught up with Kim at the top of the slope and we followed the boulders to the exit. We got out at the ramp. |
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Buddy |
Kim Dinh |
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Seas |
Slight |
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Visibility |
5 metres |
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Duration |
88 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
15.1 m |
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Average depth |
11.1 m |
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Water temperature |
18.3°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Botany Bay AEST |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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Low |
3:57am |
0.32m |
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High |
9:59am |
1.45m |
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Low |
3:37pm |
0.53m |
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High |
10:04pm |
1.91m |
Camera gear |
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Camera |
Nikon D300 |
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Lens |
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D |
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Housing |
Ikelite 6812.3 |
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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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Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.9 m.
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Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 12.2 m.
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Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 12.8 m.
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Nudibranch, Flabellina poenicia. 11.7 m.
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Nudibranch, Flabellina poenicia. 11.6 m.
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Dwarf lionfish., Dendrochirus brachypterus. 14.3 m.
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Nudibranch, Flabellina rubrolineata. 14.1 m.
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Nudibranchs, Flabellina rubrolineata. 14.2 m.
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Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 10.2 m.
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Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 10.3 m.
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Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 10.3 m.
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Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 10.2 m.
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