Dive Details
Location
Date
30 December, 2012
Time
8:22am - 9:19am
Details
Entered at The Leap and headed straight down to the sand line. Moved sloely alomg the sand line towards Seahorse Rock finding both the red brick sea star with barnacles and spindle cowrie along the way. This time I remembered to attempt photographs of the crustaceans near the cowrie.
No seahorses were found at seahorse rock but "Bob" was still on the low rock to the north. The basket start was in its usual spot as were "Southern Cross", "Richie" and "Kel". Sheree found a weedy seadragon next to "Southern Cross" rock and Peter Lightlowler pointed out a red indianfish further along.
On the way to the shallows I found an octopus and a giant cuttlefish. We exited at The Steps.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Slight
Visibility
10 metres
Duration
56 minutes
Maximum depth
21.9 m
Average depth
15.8 m
Water temperature
17.6°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
3:46am
0.49m
High
10:16am
1.76m
Low
4:53pm
0.34m
High
10:50pm
1.31m
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. 15.6 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris tasmaniensis. 21.2 m.
Red brick sea star, Pentagonaster duebeni, with attached barnacles. 21.8 m.
Spindle cowrie, Phenacovolva. 20.8 m.
Crustacean on Capnella. 20.9 m.
Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 20.8 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Bob"). 20.7 m.
Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 18 m.
Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 19.6 m.
Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 19.9 m.
Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 17.8 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Richie"). 17.3 m.
Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Kel"). 18.1 m.
Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis ("Southern Cross"). 18.1 m.
Weedy seadragon,Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 18.9 m.
Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 17.1 m.
Red indianfish, Pataecus fronto. 17.2 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.1 m.
Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 5 m.
Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 4.8 m.