Dive Details

Location

Date

02 January, 2012

Time

10:43am - 11:48am

Details

Entered at the "boat ramp" and headed along the sand line to the west. Veered off down the "ramp" to the north-west and out to what I like to call the "north-west reef" in search of weedy seadragons. Didn't find any in the usual spot but kept on pushing north-west following the reef into deeper water. I finally found one at 18 metres. Came back more-or-less along the same path and exited at the "bay" on the north-west tip of the island.

Buddy

Riana Treanor

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

65 minutes

Maximum depth

18.2 m

Average depth

12.0 m

Water temperature

17.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

3:36am

1.36m

Low

9:45am

0.73m

High

3:32pm

1.20m

Low

8:50pm

0.57m

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.

Nudibranch, Glossodoris atromarginata. 13.9 m.
 

Mosaic leatherjacket, Eubalichthys mosaicus. 14.3 m.
 

Mosaic leatherjacket, Eubalichthys mosaicus. 14.2 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 18 m.
 

Nudibranch, Neodoris chrysoderma. 15.6 m.
 

Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 13.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Tambja verconis. 13.6 m.
 

Nudibranch, Tambja verconis. 13.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Tambja verconis. 13.7 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllidiella pustulosa. 12.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Phyllidiella pustulosa. 12.2 m.