Dive at Gorgeous Reef, Henry Head, NSW on 28/12/13

Dive Details

Location

Date

28 December, 2013

Time

11:43am - 12:54pm

Details

For the second dive we pretty much repeated the first dive. On descending the anchor line we could see the visibility was a lot improved and navigation was much easier. We went past the first rock with seahorses and "Bernard" was still there.

At Seahorse Rock I found "Francis" in the sea tulips as before and as I was looking around the side of the rock I found a juvenile female (now called "Martine"). Her markings and colouration were similar to the others on Seahorse Rock and I have to wonder if she's one of their offspring. I also located "Pedro" and "Nadja" but could not find "Daniela" or "Lotte". If I'd had more time I would have thoroughly investigated the adjacent rocks.

At split rock, "Desmond" was still in the gap, but I couldn't see "Nellie".

We went down to the sand line and headed along to deeper water. We found a large juvenile weedy seadragon almost immediately. We continued as far as the octopus we saw on the first dive and then returned.

Back at Seahorse Rock, Ben, Emma and Lawrence headed back to the boat and I met Peter and Joe on their way out. Peter had discovered a large striped angler not far from Seahorse Rock which he showed me. I showed them the seahorses on Seahorse Rock, including "Martine", the juvenile. They continued with their dive and I headed back to the boat, passing the first rock with seahorse on the way.

Again, I couldn't find the anchor and did a mid water safety stop and surfaced even closer to the boat.

Buddy

Ben Drew, Emma Wilson, Lawrence Knight

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-8 metres

Duration

71 minutes

Maximum depth

18.9 m

Average depth

13.0 m

Water temperature

18.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

5:14am

1.52m

Low

11:41am

0.57m

High

5:30pm

1.29m

Low

11:30pm

0.45m

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.