Dive Details
Location
Date
09 November, 2012
Time
7:17pm - 9:00pm
Details
Entered at the beach and started the dive by looking around in the Sargassum weed for seahorses. We managed to find one. Next we headed up to the shallows and found a mourning cuttlefish. We then headed out across the sand in hope of finding a bobbit worm but were not lucky in that regard. We headed north along the shoreline and found a rock flathead, more mourning cuttlefish, a number of stingarees and Sheree spotted a small giant cuttlefish.
We finally got to the location where we saw the pleurobranchs a couple of weeks ago and found a couple. We also found an octopus out on the sand, a moray eel, a reaper cuttlefish and a large male wobbegong. Looking around we realised there were lots of pleurobranchs moving over the sand.
On the way back we saw more stingarees, reaper cuttlefish, octopus, flutemouths, morays and echiurans. While heading over the sand looking for bobbit worms I noticed the eyes of a striped pyjama squid protruding from the sand. In the final part of the dive we found more seahorses, a frogfish and another octopus. We exited at the beach.Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Calm
Visibility
5 metres
Duration
103 minutes
Maximum depth
5.7 m
Average depth
3.7 m
Water temperature
17.5°C
Site Map
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
High
4:55am
1.33m
Low
10:50am
0.61m
High
4:59pm
1.43m
Low
11:24pm
0.39m
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.
White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.3 m.
Mourning cuttlfefish, Sepia plangon. 1.5 m.
Eye of a stingaree. 3 m.
Rock fltahead, Thysanophrys cirronasus. 3.7 m.
Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 3.3 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.5 m.
Pleurobranch, Euselenops luniceps. 5 m.
Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 4.8 m.
Pleurobranch, Euselenops luniceps. 5.1 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 4.7 m.
Octopus, Octopus sp. 4.8 m.
Octopus, Octopus sp. 4.7 m.
Hermit crab, Dardanus pedunculatus. 4.9 m.
Smmoth flutemouth, Fistularia commersonii. 4.3 m.
Green moray eel, Gymnothorax prasinus. 3.9 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 3.5 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 3.7 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 3.8 m.
Octopus, Octopus sp. 3.9 m.
Octopus, Octopus sp. 4 m.
Proboscis of echiuran, Metabonellia haswelli. 3.6 m.
Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 3.2 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 2.8 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 2.8 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3.1 m.
Snail. 3.6 m.
White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.8 m.
White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.8 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 3.7 m.
Octopus, Octopus. 2.7 m.