Dive Details
Location
Date
12 September 2014
Time
8:07pm - 9:49pm
Details
The water was very calm and there was hardly a ripple when we got in at the beach. We descended and I immediately found things to photograph, including cuttlefish, striped pyjama squid and seahorses. I got so caught up in the photography that I got separated from the others and did the whole dive on my own.
I followed the rocks on the eastern side to the north turned and came back over the sand. While swimming around over the sand I found a southern calamari squid that was happy to hang around to be photographed as well as a s southern bottletail squid. I haven't seen many southern bottletail squid before so it was a bit of a thrill. I tried to shoot some video of it but it didn't turn out all that good.
I swam over the sand all the way to the reef in the centre of the bay and then came back along the beach. Close to the beach I found a blue-line octopus and a few pleurobranchs. There was also a few more striped pyjama squid.
After 100 or so minutes I got out expecting to be the last one back on only to find that the others were still in the water. As usual, Camp Cove rocked.
Seas
Flat
Visibility
5+ metres
Duration
102 minutes
Maximum depth
6.6 m
Average depth
4.3 m
Water temperature
16.3°C
Site Map
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
Low
4:13am
0.21m
High
10:29am
1.72m
Low
4:45pm
0.26m
High
10:52pm
1.54m
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.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.2 m.
Sea hare, Syphonota geographica. 2.2 m.
Short-fin eel, Anguilla australis. 2.7 m.
White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 2.7 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 2.9 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 3 m.
Striped pyjama squid, Sepioloidea lineolata. 2.9 m.
Southern peacock sole, Pardachirus hedleyi. 2.3 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 3.2 m.
Hairy red hermit crab, Dardanus lagopodes. 3.9 m.
Juvenile green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 4 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.7 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 4.8 m.
Dwarf lionfish, Dendrochirus brachypterus. 5.1 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 4.8 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 4.9 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 4.9 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 6 m.
Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 6 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.1 m.
Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 5.6 m.
Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 5.8 m.
Southern calamari squid, Sepioteuthis australis. 5.8 m.
Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.3 m.
Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.2 m.
Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.3 m.
Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.2 m.
Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.3 m.
Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.3 m.
Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.2 m.
Southern bottletail squid, Sepiadarium austrinum. 5.3 m.
Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 4.9 m.
Bobbit worm. 3.8 m.
Bobbit worm. 3.9 m.
Bobbit worm. 3.9 m.
Pleurobranch, Euselenops luniceps. 3.5 m.
Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.7 m.
Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.6 m.
Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.6 m.
Blue-lined octopus, Hapalochlaena fasciata. 3.7 m.
White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 3.6 m.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 3.5 m.
Pleurobranch, Euselenops luniceps. 2.7 m.
Eastern frogfish, Batrachomoeus dubius. 2.2 m.