Dive Details
Location
Date
14 September, 2013
Time
12:28pm - 1:43pm
Details
Entered at the bay around the corner from the flagpoles and headed towards The Steps. Thoroughly searched the area where "Honey" usually is but did not find her. We did not find The small yellow painted angler either.
Headed back towards The Monument. Checked split rock for seahorses but found none. On the way to the wall where 3 seahorses were previously seen we came across a new female seahorse, "Sara", at a location we have not previously seen seahorses. She looks very much like "Jill" but there are enough differences in her spots for her to be a different seahorse.
Checked the wall for seahorses but found none. Also checked the top of the wall for the orange painted angler but could not find it.
Exited on the rocks on the corner.Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Slight
Visibility
5-8 metres
Duration
73 minutes
Maximum depth
13.6 m
Average depth
10.4 m
Water temperature
17.0°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
High
3:08am
1.20m
Low
8:52am
0.55m
High
3:31pm
1.61m
Low
10:23pm
0.40m
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 tasmaniensis. 8.9 m.
Alga. 10.5 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.8 m.
Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 12.1 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 12.2 m.
Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus. 12.5 m.
Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 11.6 m.
Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Sara"). 11.9 m.
Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Sara"). 11.6 m.
Nudibranch, Ceratosoma amoena. 13.2 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 11.6 m.