Dive at The Leap, Kurnell, NSW on Tuesday 3 March 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Tuesday 3 March 2015

Time

2:42pm - 4:02pm

Details

The bay was a little choppy due to a strong easterly wind but the swell was not too bad. I jumped in off the low rock, descended and swam at 60° to the amphitheatre. Visibility here nearly 10 metres.

I swam to Pygmy Rock and started to look for pygmy pipehorses. I found one fairly quickly but lost it again. I eventually found it again. It is one of the individuals I saw on Saturday and Sunday. I checked the rest of the rock and could not find any others. Given how easy it was for me to lose the one I'd found, there may have been others and I just didn't see them.

I headed off along the sand line to Seahorse Rock. The visibility varied a lot along the way, sometimes dropping to less than 5 metres and it spots it was 8 or more. At Seahorse Rock it was less than 5 metres.

I found "Rosie" and "Pierre" on the rock behind Seahorse Rock. "Rosie" was near the top of the rock and "Pierre" was on the same sponge I'd left him on Sunday. He still hadn't given birth.

I continued on and at Seadragon Alley I found 2 weedy seadragons out on the sand away from the rocks. I had seen them each before and one was the individual with the wavy body.

At the end of Seadragon Alley, I found two more weedies amongst the kelp. One was a new one (to me) and I didn't get any photographs of the other one because it disappeared before I got a chance.

I followed the sand line all the way to The Steps. Just past the basket star I saw a medium sized wobbegong in the rocks. I did my safety stop near the Plesiastrea colonies and exited at The Steps.

Seas

Choppy

Visibility

3 to 10 metres

Duration

80 minutes

Maximum depth

21.1 m

Average depth

15.1 m

Water temperature

18.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

1:32am

0.55m

High

7:53am

1.62m

Low

2:26pm

0.44m

High

8:26pm

1.38m

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.