Dive Details

Location

Date

24 May, 2013

Time

7:08pm - 8:50pm

Details

Entered at the beach and veered right to the shallows. There was quite a bit of surge which made photography quite difficult. Sheree found a blue-line octopus almost immediately.

We then headed along the edge of the rocks in a northerly direction. We turned near the pile of bricks as it was getting rougher and the visibility was decreasing.

We headed over the sand, both the dirty area and then to the clean sand near the strap seagrass. We saw lots of cuttlefish but not much else.

We then swam out the reef in the middle of the bay but the visibility dropped off the further we went so we came back to the beach and exited.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

3-5 metres

Duration

102 minutes

Maximum depth

6.6 m

Average depth

4.5 m

Water temperature

21.1°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

Low

1:15am

0.35m

High

7:11am

1.55m

Low

1:03pm

0.38m

High

7:33pm

1.97m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

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.

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.6 m.
 

Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.4 m.
 

Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.4 m.
 

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis. 3.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3 m.
 

Juvenile dusky butterflyfish, Chaetodon flavirostris. 2.9 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3 m.
 

White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.1 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.4 m.
 

Eastern gobbleguts, Vincentia novaehollandiae. 5.1 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 5.6 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 5.6 m.
 

Stingaree. 6.2 m.
 

Stingaree. 6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.1 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 5 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 5.2 m.
 

Sea hare, Aplysia sp. 5.2 m.
 

Juvenile smooth flutemouth, Fistularia commersonii. 4.6 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.7 m.
 

Brush-tail toadfish, Torquigener squamicauda. 3.8 m.
 

Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 5.3 m.