Dive at The Monument, Kurnell, NSW on 3 August 2014

Dive Details

Location

Date

3 August 2014

Time

12:06pm - 1:04pm

Details

I had enjoyed my first dive and when I saw Di and Noel Conlon were going to dive The Monument I decided to join them for a second dive and make use of their excellent spotting.

We got in at the bay around the corner from the flagpoles and descended to the sponge garden. This time we headed north west along the reef. I found an eastern frogfish under Split Rock but it was too far back to photograph. "Oliver", the orange form undescribed angler, was in the same spot and pointed it out to Di and Noel. A little further on I found a medium sized giant cuttlefish and a small green moray (which I suspect was the same one I'd seen on the previous dive).

Di pointed out a Nembrotha purpureolineata nudibranch and then a number of small Tambja tenuilineata nudibranchs. As we swam along the wall, Noel found some more T. tenuilineata nudibranchs. We swam to the two bommies and then turned and swam back along the wall to the sponge garden. Di found a dwarf lionfish. From the sponge garden we swam back to the bay and exited.

Buddy

Noel and Di Conlon

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

58 minutes

Maximum depth

13.9 m

Average depth

10.8 m

Water temperature

16.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

12:22am

1.40m

Low

6:44am

0.52m

High

1:14pm

1.44m

Low

7:23pm

0.68m

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.