Dive Details
Location
Date
Friday 14 November 2014
Time
12:18pm - 1:19pm
Details
It was a beautiful day in Nelson Bay and the beach looked inviting. We entered the water at the north eastern end of the beach next to the rocks and descended straight out from the entry point. There was a fairly strong incoming tidal current so we headed parallel to the beach with the current. The visibility was between 3 and 5 metres. There were large sea hares everywhere around motoring over the reef.
After drifting for a while the current eased and we pottered around before heading back along the beach in the shallows. We overshot the exit point and had to swim back around the point.
Buddy
Sheree Papuni
Seas
Flat
Visibility
3 to 5 metres
Duration
59 minutes
Maximum depth
14.1 m
Average depth
7.8 m
Water temperature
18.1°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides at Port Stephens AEDT
Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.
High
2:33am
1.16m
Low
7:57am
0.70m
High
2:15pm
1.41m
Low
9:11pm
0.47m
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.
Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 12.4 m.
Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 12.4 m.
Eye of a spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus. 12.5 m.
Red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis. 12.1 m.
Nudibranch, Flabellina rubrolineata. 7.5 m.
Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 7.2 m.
Female rin-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 7.2 m.
Nudibranch, Flabellina rubrolineata. 7.6 m.
Tube anemone, Pachycerianthus delwynae. 7.8 m.
Nudibranch, Pteraeolidia ianthina. 6.4 m.
Male rin-scale threefin, Enneapterygius annulatus. 4.8 m.
Nudibranch, Hypselodoris bennetti. 5.1 m.
Painted stinkfish, Eocallionymus papilio. 4.8 m.