Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on 15/12/12

Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on 15/12/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

15 December, 2012

Time

8:22am - 9:25am

Details

Entered at The Leap. There was a pretty big swell which actually made it easier to get in as the water came right up to the shelf. We headed straight down to the sand line and moved slowly towards Seahorse Rock. I wanted to find the cowrie I'd found the week before and so was looking for colonies of the soft coral, Capnella on which I had seen it. The first colony I checked had the cowrie (or one that looked like it). On the way to Seahorse Rock we saw two weedy seadragons.

We stopped at Seahorse Rock for a quick look and then on the the low rock where we'd seen "Rosie" and "Bob". "Bob" was there, but no "Rosie".

We next headed towards "Southern Cross" stopping on the way to see the basket star. At "Southern Cross" we found her, "Richie" and "Kel".

After "Southern Cross" we followed the sand line a bit longer and found another weedy seadragon - three on the one dive. As we headed towards the shallows I found a large juvenile lionfish.

We exited at The Steps which was a bit hairy due to the very high tide and the swell.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

63 minutes

Maximum depth

22.0 m

Average depth

15.4 m

Water temperature

14.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

3:56am

0.32m

High

10:29am

2.03m

Low

5:11pm

0.10m

High

11:12pm

1.43m

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.