Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on Monday 16 March 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Monday 16 March 2015

Time

11:47am - 1:28pm

Details

Despite the largish south-easterly swell it was quite calm on the northern side of the island to the west of the bridge. We got in on the northern shore and descended. The visibility was around 5 metres which was excellent for low tide.

We followed the boulders to the west, past the outboard motor, up over the shelf to the south-west and across the sand to the top of the slope. We were looking for pygmy pipehorses along the way. Kim pointed out two at the top of the slope on rocks with hardly any growth. They were sitting there like sentries.

We continued down the slope and Kim found a tiny juvenile on the rocks on the left. We carefully inspected the first lot of rocks with the sponges and sea tulips and Kim found 2 more pygmies.

We slowly made our way to almost the corner of the wall looking for pygmies all the way but we did not find any. We turned and came back and I took some more photographs of the 2 pygmies on the rock with the sponges and sea tulips. While I was there I discovered a third one near the other two.

Kim was getting bored so she headed off while I took some more photographs and then I slowly made my way back to the exit snapping some more photos of the sentries on the way back.

I exited at the entry point.

Buddy

Kim Dinh

Seas

Surgy

Visibility

3 to 5 metres

Duration

100 minutes

Maximum depth

12.2 m

Average depth

8.6 m

Water temperature

21.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

5:18am

1.61m

Low

12:02pm

0.44m

High

6:06pm

1.33m

Low

11:52pm

0.53m

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.