Dive Details

Location

Date

Tuesday 5 May 2015

Time

11:34am - 1:05pm

Details

The surface water around Bare Island was a little brown again after the rain over the weekend but at least the seas were a lot calmer.

We got in on the northern side of the island and descended to the sand. Visibility here was around 5 metres. We headed west along the reef, over the shelf near the outboard motor and along the reef to the slope. We headed down the slope and went over to the rocks with the pink sea tulips to try to find the juvenile pygmy pipehorse. We only looked for a short period of time but could not find it.

We continued down the slope and went around the corner in front of the caves. Kim found two Flabellina rubrolineata nudibranchs in a hydroid colony. It was difficult to photograph them because the current here was quite strong and the hydroid colony moved around a lot.

We turned and headed around the corner and back up the slope. We stopped again at the rocks with the sea tulips to look for the juvenile pygmy pipehorse. Kim could only stay for a short wile as she was running low on air. Just after she left I found the pipehorse low down on the rock. It has been in that same area for over a week now. Hopefully, we'll get to watch it grow.

I headed up the slope and followed the reef around to the exit on the northern side of the island.

Buddy

Kim Dinh

Seas

Slight

Visibility

2 to 6 metres

Duration

91 minutes

Maximum depth

14.8 m

Average depth

10.4 m

Water temperature

19.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

3:03am

0.43m

High

9:00am

1.46m

Low

2:46pm

0.51m

High

9:13pm

1.80m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D300

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6812.3

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.

Nudibranch, Flabellina rubrolineata. 14 m.
 

Nudibranch, Flabellina rubrolineata. 14.1 m.
 

Nudibranch, Hypselodoris obscura. 10.9 m.
 

Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 9.9 m.
 

Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 9.8 m.