Dive Details
Location
Date
03 January, 2014
Time
10:14am - 11:29am
Details
It was a very high tide when we arrived and the water was nearly lapping over the top of the pool. We entered at the pool and descenced the wall. We swum around the first bommie looking for the angler that had been seen there. We didn't find it, but Tomas managed to find it later.
We swam across the sand and came across three mourning cuttlefish. It looked like one small female, one large male, and a smaller male. The larger male was trying to keep the smaller male away from the female. Later Tomas saw two cuttlefish mating and it may have been the female and the large male we saw.
We headed back to the wall and checked out the cave with the pineapplefish. There were 6 of them there.
We followed the wall all the way to the shallows. In the shallows I found a number of Sydney cardinalfish pairs where the male had eggs brooding in their mouths. They still need a little bit more time before the eggs are properly visible.
We turned and came back along the wall. After a safety stop on top of the wall over the sand, we exited at the pool.
Buddy
Peter Jaques, Graeme Heard
Seas
Slight
Visibility
5-10 metres
Duration
75 minutes
Maximum depth
17.2 m
Average depth
9.4 m
Water temperature
20.4°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Botany Bay AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
3:58am
0.29m
High
10:29am
2.04m
Low
5:07pm
0.08m
High
11:08pm
1.50m
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.
Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys aprinus. 14.7 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 15.7 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 15.7 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 15.7 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 15.7 m.
Pineapplefish, Cleidopus gloriamaris. 13.1 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 9 m.
Flatworm. 7.4 m.
Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 7.9 m.
Male Sydney cardinalfish, Apogon limenus, brooding eggs in its mouth. 6.8 m.
Male Sydney cardinalfish, Apogon limenus, brooding eggs in its mouth. 6.9 m.
Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 5.3 m.
Umbrella snail, Umbraculum umbraculum. 10.2 m.
Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 8.9 m.
Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 10.1 m.
Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 10.1 m.
Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 10.7 m.
Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 6.6 m.
Ring-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 4.2 m.