Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on 16/2/14

Dive Details

Location

Date

16 February, 2014

Time

8:37am - 9:43am

Details

Another fantastic looking day at Bare Island, despite the overcast and wet conditions. Just like the previous day, the bay was flat and the water looked clear.

We jumped in off the western corner again, descended and headed south until we reached the wall. We headed down the wall and turned left heading south east. We followed the wall along for a while and then turned and came back.

We followed the wall until it flattened out and continued along the sponge covered tiers. I started heading up to the shallower wall but Sheree called us back because she found the seahorses. They were at 16 metres just like I expected, based on the previous times I'd been shown them. She initially found two and as I was telling her there should be 4, she found the other 2.

We then headed north to the shallow wall. Right where we hit the base of it we found the painted angler we'd seen yesterday. We followed the wall to the right, heading north and came across the second giant cuttlefish from yesterday.

Sheree was running low on air (only had an 11.1L tank) so she headed to shallower water while Sally and I followed the wall around to the northern corner and then came around to the slope. At the base of the slow I found a red indianfish.

At the top of the slope we ascended to around 5 metres for our safety stop as we swam to the ramp. We exited at the ramp.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni, Sally Glenn

Seas

Flat

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

18.8 m

Average depth

12.9 m

Water temperature

16.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

3:45am

0.43m

High

10:05am

1.69m

Low

4:27pm

0.35m

High

10:30pm

1.46m

Video

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.