Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on 22/12/13

Dive Details

Location

Date

22 December, 2013

Time

8:38am - 9:43am

Details

Another fantastic dive at The Leap.

We jumped in at The Leap and descended to the sand line. At the sand line we headed towards The Steps. On the way to Seahorse Rock, I found a reaper cuttlefish. Behind Seahorse Rock we found "Bob" and "Rosie", pot-bellied seahorses.

A little further on from the seahorses, Seb found an Okenia mellita nudibranch. This was the first time I'd ever seen one. We continued on to the next seahorse location and found "Southern Cross", "Richie", and "Pierre".

Further along we found a couple of weedy seadragons. We checked for the red painted angler, "Dana", at the rock with the sea tulips but couldn't find it.

At the small big rock, Sheree found another Okenia mellita. I had never seen them before and now I see two on the one dive.

We looked for "Little Andrew", the orange painted angler, and "Big John", the orange form undescribed angler, but couldn't find either.

We did our safety stop and exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10 metres

Duration

64 minutes

Maximum depth

21.6 m

Average depth

15.3 m

Water temperature

19.3°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

12:06pm

1.29m

Low

5:41am

0.59m

High

12:02pm

1.62m

Low

6:41pm

0.43m

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.