Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on Sunday 5 October 2014

Dive Details

Location

Date

Sunday 5 October 2014

Time

1:21pm - 2:32pm

Details

The Leap looked fabulous from the top of the steps. There was not much swell and the water looked clear. We geared up and walked down the stairs amd it was hot. All we wanted to do was get into the water. The rocks were very slippery and I fell just as I was about to get in. Fortunately, I didn't hurt myself or the camera and I was able to get in out of the heat.

In the water, the visibility was as good as it looked from the top of the steps. We descended and headed at around 75° as we wanted to hit the wall. We made it to the wall and the visibility was around 15 metres. The wall looked fantastic. We headed ESE along the wall for a little while before turning and heading back along the wall towards The Steps.

Just after the wall ended and before we'd reached the amphitheatre, I heard Sheree cry out with joy. She'd found a pygmy pipehorse. It was a pretty little thing, too. We looked around for its mate but it appeared to be the only one around.

We headed on along the sand line towards The Steps. We found one weedy seadragon before we reached Seahorse Rock. We found "Rosie" on her usual rock behind seahorse rock. It is nearly 2 years since we first saw "Rosie" as a juvenile' Interestingly, she still has her spines on her head. They are meant to disappear with age but she must be fully grown by now.

We continued on the next seahorses and found "Pierre" in the same spot he'd been last week but it took us a little longer to find "Southern Cross" but we found her.

Further along we found another 3 weedy seadragons, including a male with eggs. This was not the same one we'd seen two weeks ago.

We headed up the reef and swam along in front of the boulders finding one more weedy seadragon. We swam up to 5 metres and did our safety stop as we swam to the exit. We exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Sheree Papuni

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10-15 metres

Duration

71 minutes

Maximum depth

21.4 m

Average depth

15.5 m

Water temperature

17.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

6:17am

1.42m

Low

12:09pm

0.41m

High

6:31pm

1.71m

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.