Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on 11/1/14

Dive Details

Location

Date

11 January, 2014

Time

8:26am - 9:43am

Details

We got in at the little baylet on the north western corner of the island and headed to the left. We descended and swam into a small school of striped catfish.

We headed south to the wall and then swam along the wall to the south east. We swam a fair way along the wall and then turned and came back.

Kim spotted a tiny Noumea sulphurea nudibranch that is so small I had trouble photographing it. I don't know how she saw it.

Kim then pointed out a yellow female pot-bellied seahorse. This was the first time I'd seen a seahorse at Bare Island. A little further along I spotted a brown male pot-bellied seahorse. I went from none to two in a very short space of time.

As we moved around the south western corner of the island, we headed out over the low reefs. Kim then spotted a Flabellina rubrolineata nudibranch and a flathead.

We followed the edge of the island all the way around to the northern side and came up near the ramp and we exited next to the ramp because the tide was so low.

Buddy

Kim Dinh

Seas

Slight

Visibility

3 to 5 metres

Duration

76 minutes

Maximum depth

18.2 m

Average depth

12.6 m

Water temperature

17.7°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

5:44am

1.53m

Low

12:29pm

0.59m

High

6:14pm

1.18m

Low

11:56pm

0.56m

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.