Dive Details

Location

Date

Sunday 1 June 2014

Time

9:03am - 10:12am

Details

It was overcast and threatening rain at Bare Island and the swell was more from the south than had been forecast. It still looked quite clear on the northern side of the island and we thought we'd chance the end of the wall to look for the seahorses.

It was too rough on the corner so we had to jump in on the northern side of the island and swim around the corner to the south west. Just around the corner we descended and headed south to the wall. We dropped over the wall and turned to the left, following the wall to the north west. At the end of the wall we started looking for the seahorses. I managed to find the black and red female, "Della" quite quickly but it took over 10 minutes to find the second seahorse, a male, "Tomas". It then took a further 6 minutes before Kim found the yellow female, "Kim". The yellow female is usually the easiest to find. We looked around for a bit longer but were not able to find any others so we headed off.

We headed north across the sand until we hit the shallow wall, near where the painted angler used to be. We looked for the angler but couldn't find it. We followed the wall around north-west, then north, and eventually east to come back to the northern side of the island. We exited at the "boat ramp".

Buddy

Kim Dinh

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

68 minutes

Maximum depth

18.1 m

Average depth

13.2 m

Water temperature

19.8°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

4:45am

0.47m

High

10:46am

1.33m

Low

4:14pm

0.66m

High

10:41pm

1.73m

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.

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Della"). 16.1 m.
 

Male pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Tomas"). 16.8m.
 

Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. 16.7 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kim"). 17.2 m.
 

Female pot-bellied seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis, ("Kim"). 17.2 m.
 

Spotted grubfish, Parapercis ramsayi. 14.3 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 11.8 m.
 

Umbrella snail, Umbraculum umbraculum. 11.7 m.
 

Yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus. 11.2 m.
 

Varigated lizardfish, Synodus variegatus. 4.8 m.