Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on Tuesday 19 May 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Tuesday 19 May 2015

Time

11:11am - 12:52pm

Details

The Bay was quiet calm and the water looked good. The tide was on its way out. I got in just to the east of the "pool" and Kim got in closer to the ramp and surface swam to near me. We descended to the sand line near the outboard motor. The visibility was around 5 metres.

We swam up over the ledge and followed the boulders around. We looked for pygmies along the rocks but they have not come back since the storm.

We continued down the slope. I tried to find the juvenile pygmy pipehorse that we'd seen previously on one of the rocks with the pink sea tulips but I couldn't see it.

I did manage to find a juvenile pygmy further down the slope in a location I have seen one before. Perhaps it is the same one.

Further down the slope Kim found a Cratena lineata nudibranch.

We turned and headed back up the slope. I managed to find the pygmy pipehorse again on the way back. I had another look for the other juvenile but still couldn't find it. At the top of the slope we followed the boulders around and swam to the exit.

Buddy

Kim Dinh

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

101 minutes

Maximum depth

13.1 m

Average depth

9.5 m

Water temperature

18.0°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

3:07am

0.29m

High

9:08am

1.51m

Low

2:52pm

0.46m

High

9:19pm

1.96m

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.

Sea star, Uniophora granifera. 9.3 m.

Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 10.5 m.

Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 10.4 m.

Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 10.3 m.

Painted stinkfish, Eocallionymus papilio. 10.5 m.

Nudibranch, Cratena lineata. 11.9 m.

Nudibranch, Cratena lineata. 11.7 m.

Juvenile Sydney pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri. 10 m.