Dive Details |
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Location |
Chowder Bay, Clifton Gardens, NSW |
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Date |
Saturday 23 April 2016 |
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Time |
9:01am - 10:39am |
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Details |
It was too rough to dive at any open sites and I enjoy diving at Clifton Gardens so I came nice and early before the crowds. I got in at the beach next to the jetty and swam out under the jetty. The visibility was surprisingly good, starting at around 3 metres and was as much as 5 metres after the jetty passes the nets.
I swam past the end of the nets and headed down to the pylon where I'd seen the freckled anglerfish on the last dive. I swam around the pylon multiple times as well as the adjacent pylons but could not find either angler. I headed further out under the jetty, reached the end and gradually made my way back. I checked the same pylon again on the way back but still no anglers.
I had a good look under the next most shallow pylon hoping to find one of the ghostpipefish but instead found one of the freckled anglers. I believe it is the same as the first one I saw a few weeks ago.
I then swam along the shore between the old and new nets. I swam to the end then came out from the nets and swam along the outside. When I got back to the angler I pointed it out to a couple of divers. They were pleased.
I swam around a little longer before making it back along the jetty and exiting at the beach. |
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Seas |
Slight |
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Visibility |
3 to 5 metres |
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Duration |
98 minutes |
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Maximum depth |
8.8 m |
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Average depth |
4.7 m |
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Water temperature |
21.0°C |
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Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand |
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Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST |
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location. |
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Low |
2:56am |
0.47m |
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High |
8:55am |
1.50m |
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Low |
2:47pm |
0.52m |
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High |
9:10pm |
1.73m |
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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Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 3.9 m.
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Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 3.7 m.
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Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 4.1 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.6 m.
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Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.5 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 7 m.
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Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 6.9 m.
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Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 7.4 m.
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Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 7.8 m.
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Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 8.1 m.
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Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 7.3 m.
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Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 7.2 m.
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Crab. 6.8 m.
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Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.8 m.
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Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.8 m.
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Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.7 m.
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Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.9 m.
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Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.8 m.
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Freckled anglerfish, Antennatus coccineus. 3.9 m.
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Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.2 m.
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Male White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 4.1 m.
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Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 3.8 m.
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