Dive at Fly Point, Nelson Bay, NSW on 3 May 2014

Dive Details

Location

Date

3 May 2014

Time

11:21am - 12:25pm

Details

After the westerly wind (well, gale) picked up on Friday night, it looked unlikely we'd be able to dive at all on Saturday. We checked out a few sites and Fly Point looked like the only one where there might be some decent visibility. It was a little choppy on the surface and we were hopeful we'd be able to get a dive.

We entered at the bottom of the steps and swam out. Early on in the dive Kylie was with us and pointed out three Nembrotha lineolata nudibranchs that were relatively close together. Shortly after that we lost her and it was just the two of us for the rest of the dive. We stayed between 7 and 10 metres most of the dive just swimming around on the flat. Towards the end of the dive we found the wall and had a quick look there. Sheree was doing her usual great job of finding lots of cool critters. There were a huge number of Ceratosoma brevicaudatum nudibranchs, including a tiny one that Sheree spotted.

After about an hour in the water a wall of much came at us from the west. I assume the tide had changed so we got out of the water pretty quickly while we could still see. We exited at the steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

63 minutes

Maximum depth

12.4 m

Average depth

8.6 m

Water temperature

21.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Port Stephens AEST

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

Low

5:15am

0.41m

High

11:16am

1.30m

Low

4:42pm

0.63m

High

11:12pm

1.68m

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.