Dive Details

Location

Date

28 April, 2013

Time

9:13am - 10:14am

Details

Entered at The Leap and went straight down to the sand line. I got separated from Sheree, Wayne and Gary and had to wait for them. We then made our way to Seahorse Rock. We checked the rock behind Seahorse Rock first and found "Kel" and "Rosie" but there was no sign of "Bob". Sheree checked out Seahorse Rock and "Bob" had moved back there. I wonder if "Kel" and "Rosie" will eventually join him there.

After Seahorse Rock we checked out all the rocks with sponges looking for more seahorses and anglers and instead found a number of reaper cuttleflsh.

At the usual location with "Southern Cross" we found both "Southern Cross" and "Richie" without too much trouble. The small common Sydney octopus was also there.

We then headed to The Steps casually checking the rocks along the way. We exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

15 metres

Duration

60 minutes

Maximum depth

21.8 m

Average depth

15.5 m

Water temperature

20.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

4:08am

0.23m

High

10:10am

1.50m

Low

3:53pm

0.42m

High

10:22pm

1.95m

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, Chromodoris splendida. 20.9 m.
 

Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 21.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Rosie"). 19.8 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kel"). 20 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Bob"). 21.1 m.
 

Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 20.5 m.
 

Basket star, Astrosierra amblyconus. 18.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 20 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 20.4 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 19.6 m.
 

Cowrie, Primovula rosewateri. 20.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 18.9 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Southern Cross"). 17.9 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Richie"). 18 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 18.5 m.