Dive Details

Location

Date

23 June, 2013

Time

8:35am - 9:50am

Details

Entered at the bay around the corner from the flagpoles and headed left and towards the sand line. Saw a large wobbegong on the way and then an octopus on the wall. Further along the wall we saw a giant cuttlefish and a reaper cuttlefish. Sheree found "Jill", "Jackson" and "Jaques" near the base of the wall, all hanging on to kelp. We then turned and headed towards The Steps.

At split rock we had a good look for "Fernando" but he was not to be found. We continued on to where "Lisa" and "Trevor" are. I found both in their usual locations and after a bit of searching, Sheree found "Honey" near the base of one of the rocks - but not the same spot I last saw her. We continued on towards The Steps

Along the way we saw two weedy seadragons, another wobbegong and a Port Jackson shark.

We exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

75 minutes

Maximum depth

13.7 m

Average depth

10.3 m

Water temperature

17.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

1:58am

0.22m

High

7:52am

1.48m

Low

1:33pm

0.37m

High

8:09pm

2.08m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR +5 diopter

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

Lens port

Ikelite 6" Dome Port 5503.50

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.

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 6.3 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 6.4 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 7.8 m.
 

Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. 7.9 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.7 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Jill"). 12.4 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Jackson"). 13.1 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Jaques"). 13 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Jill"). 12.6 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Trevor"). 10.2 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Lisa"). 10.3 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Honey"). 12 m.
 

Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 10.8 m.
 

Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 11.3 m.
 

Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 10.9 m.