Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on Thursday 19 March 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Thursday 19 March 2015

Time

3:41pm - 5:12pm

Details

For this dive I wanted to check out the seahorses and also look for the white/pink pygmy pipehorse we saw on the night dive last week. The tide was too low to get in on the western side of the island so we waded out through the swimming pool and surface swam around the corner. We descended and headed out at 210°. I would normally swim at 240° to get the the seahorses but I wasn't sure I had the starting point correct. We ended up near the end of the wall and only had a short swim to the seahorses. We found both seahorses, "Tomas" and "Della".

We headed west along the reef and I tried to find the red-fingered angler we'd seen on the night dive last week but I didn't find it.

We turned and swam north over the sand until we hit the shallow reef. I looked around for the area where the white/pink pygmy had been. I know I was in the right area but couldn't locate the exact spot.

We headed west, north-west and then north around the wall. I overshot the spot where the other two pygmies had just been and Kim called me back. We had another look but could not find the pygmy pipehorses.

We swam east and split up to look for pygmies and nudibranchs. I eventually made it to the rocks with the sponges and sea tulips where I found one of the pygmies we'd seen earlier in the week.

I swam past the sentries and then followed the reef around doing my safety stop on the way to exit near the ramp where I met up with Kim.

Buddy

Kin Dinh

Seas

Slight

Visibility

3 to 5 metres

Duration

91 minutes

Maximum depth

16.5 m

Average depth

11.4 m

Water temperature

22.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

1:49am

0.31m

High

8:10am

1.87m

Low

2:37pm

0.17m

High

8:44pm

1.68m

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.