Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on Friday 17 April 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Friday 17 April 2015

Time

1:27pm - 2:52pm

Details

Ben was not able to get away for our planned dive at The Leap so I stayed at Bare Island for a second dive. I wanted to find more pygmy pipehorses.

I got in on the northern side of the island, descended and swam along the sand, over the outboard motor, over the ledge and along the sand next to the boulders. I was checking out the rocks and algae on the sand for pygmies when I found a small male pygmy pipehorse on one of the rocks. While I was watching it I noticed a smaller one (perhaps a female) around 10 centimetres away.

I continued on again checking all the possible holdfasts for pygmies but did not find any more until I got to the area we'd seen two earlier. One was still on the metal skeleton and the other was near the little yellow sponges.

I didn't go any further down the slope and turned and headed back the way I had come, stopping at the first two pygmies on the way back.

I followed the sand all the way to the exit doing my safety stop along the way. I exited just to the west of the ramp.

Buddy

Botany Bay AEST

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5-10 metres

Duration

85 minutes

Maximum depth

8.9 m

Average depth

7.2 m

Water temperature

20.5°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides

Low

12:37am

0.35m

High

6:48am

1.77m

Low

1:05pm

0.24m

High

7:20pm

1.80m

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

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