Dive at Gorgeous Reef, Henry Head, NSW on 23/11/13

Dive at Gorgeous Reef, Henry Head, NSW on 23/11/13 - ATJ's Diving Site

Dive Details

Location

Date

23 November, 2013

Time

10:30am - 11:37am

Details

After a 1 hour interval we started our second dive. We pretty much took the same route as the first, although Seb wasn't with us this time because he was only wearing a wetsuit and found it a bit cold.

I looked for "Halle" and "Bernard" again at heir rock to no avail. "Lee" was still on the sea tulips. Next stop was Seahorse Rock and I managed to find all four adults again but little "Neville" had moved. I finally found him in the sea tulips on the western side of the rock.

I then looked again for "Nellie" and found her this time. She was holding on to a white holey sponge (Holopsamma). She might have been there on the first dive and I missed her. "Desmond" was still in the gap on the sea tulips.

While we were there, Joe and Dan caught up with us and we headed together into deeper water as Dan wanted to see some weedy seadragons. We were rewarded almost immediately by a large juvenile.

I was getting close to my non-decompression limit so I hung a bit shallower while Karolyn took photos of the weedy. We then headed back past seahorse rock and "Lee" to the anchor line for a safety stop.

Buddy

Karolyn Landat

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

16.8 m

Average depth

12.9 m

Water temperature

14.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

12:36pm

1.23m

Low

6:06am

0.64m

High

12:30pm

1.57m

Low

7:17pm

0.48m

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.