Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on Saturday 24 January 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Saturday 24 January 2015

Time

9:08am - 10:30am

Details

It was a beautiful day at La Perouse and the waters around Bare Island were quite calm thanks to the protection from the easterly swell provided by Henry Head. I was able to jump in on the western side of the island just south of the north west tip. I descended and headed at a bearing of around 240° which took me just to the east of the seahorses.

I found "Andrey" immediately who was on the lower tier as usual. I couldn't find "Della" on the middle tier where she's been for the last few months. I found "Tomas" on the side of the top tier where he often is. Eventually, I found "Della" on a large green sponge on the top tier.

After finding all three seahorses, I headed a long the reef for a bit and then headed north up one of the channels finding a red indianfish along the way. I then headed north across the sand and found a souther spiny gurnard.

When I got to the shallow wall I followed it west then north around the island and around the corner past the cave. Just around the corner I found a beautiful nudibranch that I'd never seen before. It was Ardeadoris rubroannulata.

I followed the wall up to the rock with the pygmy pipehorses and found one almost immediately. After much looking I didn't find any more. While I was there, Kim arrived with divers in tow so I took her to see the cool nudibranch and then returned to the pygmy pipehorse before heading for the exit doing my saftey stop along the way. I exited to the west of the ramp on the shelf.

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 to 10 metres

Duration

81 minutes

Maximum depth

17.6 m

Average depth

12.2 m

Water temperature

15.5°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

5:48am

0.32m

High

12:07pm

1.84m

Low

6:37pm

0.20m

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.