Dive Details

Location

Date

10 August, 2013

Time

8:37am - 9:54am

Details

Entered at the bay around the corner from the flagpoles and descended to the reef. We headed south east towards The Steps to where "Honey", "Lisa" and "Trevor" used to be. We looked carefully around the area but could not find them.

We headed a bit further towards The Steps looking over the sponge covered boulders looking for the seahorses. We turned and mad our way back towards The Monument. Unbeknown to us, shortly after we turned Kevin Bacon found a female seahorse that looks very much like "Honey" between some rocks. He tried to attract our attention but we'd gone to far already.

We kept going to the area where we'd seen "Jaques", "Jill" and "Jackson" previously, checking out all the rocks along the way. As I got to the area, Peter Jaques and Kevin Bray had overtaken me and spotted "Jill" on the sand. I looked around the area but could not find any other seahorses.

As he was leaving, George Borovskis spotted a tiny orange painted angler just above where we were.

We exited on the rocks on the corner.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-12 metres

Duration

76 minutes

Maximum depth

14.0 m

Average depth

11.1 m

Water temperature

16.1°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

4:13am

0.34m

High

10:23am

1.47m

Low

4:15pm

0.48m

High

10:27pm

1.63m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

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

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

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.

Blue groper, Achoerodus viridis. 11.2 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.7 m.
 

Reaper cuttlefish, Sepia mestus. 11.7 m.
 

Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. 12.6 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 12.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Aphelodoris varia. 11.5 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Jill"). 13.5 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Jill"). 13.9 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Jill"). 13.7 m.
 

Tiny painted angler, Antennarius pictus. 10.4 m.