Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on Saturday 3 January 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Saturday 3 January 2015

Time

9:14am - 10:22am

Details

As I arrived back at the ute from the previous dive I spied Vicki Swinnerton across the road gearing up for a dive. After confirming she could show me the location of the pygmy pipehorse rock I joined her, Ricky, Bruce and Len for a dive.

After jumping it, Vicki took me straight to the pygmy pipehorse rock and pointed out a large pregnant male pygmy pipehorse to me and then continued her dive with Ricky, Bruce and Len, leaving me with the pygmy pipehorses.

The one she pointed out to me was much more camouflaged than the ones I see at Kurnell and I believe I had already looked at that rock on previous dives. Once I had seen that one though I had my eye in and found 3 more all less than half a metre apart. There was another large drab male who was very well camouflaged, a smaller male that had a lot of pink on it and a much smaller one (not sure if male or female) that was almost clear. I spent the rest of the dive photographing the ones I had found and also looking for more. These guys are much harder to spot than the ones at The Leap.

Buddy

Vicki Swinnerton

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

67 minutes

Maximum depth

11.7 m

Average depth

9.6 m

Water temperature

18.4°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

1:16am

0.47m

High

7:51am

1.74m

Low

2:33pm

0.38m

High

8:24pm

1.31m

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.