Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on 16/12/12

Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on 16/12/12 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

16 December, 2012

Time

11:35am - 12:51pm

Details

Entered on the northern side of the island, near to the north west tip. Descended to around 5 metres where I saw a tiny octopus dart into a shell. We watched the octopus for 15 minutes hoping it would come out of the shell but it just kept one eye on me and wouldn't come out.

After leaving the octopus we headed to the main reef and then down the north west "ramp" towards the north west reef. We pottered around there looking for seahorses. We didn't find any seahorses but a large lion's mane jellyfish swam by (see video and watch for the opportunist fish that grabs one of the juveniles under the jellyfish).

We returned the way we came and stopped where the octopus had been but it had already gone. We existed at the "boat ramp".

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

76 minutes

Maximum depth

15.8 m

Average depth

8.6 m

Water temperature

15.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

4:51am

0.36m

High

11:20am

1.97m

Low

6:02pm

0.15m

Video

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.