Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on 20/7/13

Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on 20/7/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

20 July, 2013

Time

9:12am - 10:35am

Details

Entered from the shelf just west of the ramp and descended to 5 metres. Headed west along the reef, up over the shelf at the anchor and then veered to the north west down the ramp towards the corner. At the corner we scouted around the sponge gardens. PJ found a medium sized giant cuttlefish and John pointed out an adult red indianfish.

We then headed around the corner a short way and then down to the adjacent reefs looking for seahorses. After not finding any, we headed back to the corner again so I could show the red indianfish to Sheree. I also showed her the cuttlefish. On the way from the cuttlefish to the red indianfish, Sheree found a juvenile red indianfish.

Just past the corner on the way back we stopped to look for pygmy pipehorses where we'd seen them before. We didn't find any.

We swam back the way we'd come and exited at the entry point.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

83 minutes

Maximum depth

15.1 m

Average depth

12.0 m

Water temperature

16.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Cyber Aqualand Nx

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

5:43am

1.35m

Low

11:26am

0.42m

High

6:06pm

1.89m

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.