Dive Details

Location

Date

Wednesday 24 December 2014

Time

8:49am - 10:02am

Details

Bare Island looked a lot rougher today but it was just a very strong south westerly wind. The swell was no bigger than it was yesterday and we pretty much had the pick of the entry points. I decided we'd do the eastern side of the island as I hoped I could at least find some anglers to show Daniel.

We jumped in just south of the pole and descended to the sand line. Visibility was around 10 metres but it was very cold. We headed north and I carefully checked the low rocks for pygmy pipehorses. Either I have lost my eye for finding them or there weren't any around (or I never had an eye for them and I just got lucky multiple times at The Leap) as I did not find a single pygmy pipehorse.

We followed the wall north through the gap in the rocks and I was looking carefully for anglers. It has been nearly 12 months since I last dived the eastern side and I don't know of the anglers are still around. Nevertheless, I could not find any.

We swam around under the bridge where the water was warmer but visibility was down to around 3 metres. Daniel still had 100 bar so we headed to the north west reef to look for pygmy pipehorses again. The visibility picked up to around 8 metres. On the way we saw a largish crested horn shark. I still didn't find any pygmy pipehorses.

We came back up the slow and along the top of the island exiting just west of the ramp.

Buddy

Daniel Jones

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

3 to 10 metres

Duration

73 minutes

Maximum depth

12.2 m

Average depth

8.2 m

Water temperature

15.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

4:11am

0.35m

High

10:42am

1.96m

Low

5:21pm

0.15m

High

11:22pm

1.45m

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.

Nudibranchs, Ceratosoma amoenum. 8.8 m.
 

Nudibranchs, Chromodoris splendida. 8 m.
 

Stingaree. 9.3 m.
 

Nudibranch, Chromodoris splendida. 8.2 m.