Dive Details

Location

Date

Saturday 26 September 2015

Time

8:41am - 9:47am

Details

It had been over a year since I'd dived at Clifton Gardens and it was too rough to dive elsewhere so I gave it a go. It was a beautiful morning and the harbour was calm. The water looked clear.

I got in at the beach on the eastern side of the pool nets and swam out under the pier. Visibility was at least 5 metres. I followed the pier pylons to deeper water and then slowly made my way back swimming back and forth between the pylons. At the top I followed the nets to the west for a while, turned and came back. I swam back north along the nets and got out at the beach. Interestingly, I only saw one seahorse but 3 pipefish.

Seas

Flat

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

8.5 m

Average depth

5.4 m

Water temperature

17.5°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Sydney (Fort Denison) AEST

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

Low

12:17am

0.21m

High

6:24am

1.52m

Low

12:18pm

0.30m

High

6:39pm

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

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.

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 3.9 m.
 

Female White's seahorse, Hippocampus whitei. 6 m.
 

Pygmy leatherjacket, Brachaluteres jacksonianus. 5.9 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.7 m.
 

Brown sabretooth blenny, Petroscirtes lupus. 7.9 m.
 

Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 8.4 m.
 

Pink-banded grubfish, Parapercis cylindrica. 7.9 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 7.8 m.
 

Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 8 m.
 

Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 8 .1m.
 

Girdled pipefish, Festucalex cinctus. 8 .1m.
 

Green moray, Gymnothorax prasinus. 6.5 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 6.2 m.
 

Brown sabretooth blenny, Petroscirtes lupus. 6.2 m.
 

Common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus. 7.2 m.
 

Decorator crab, Hyastenus elastus. 5.4 m.
 

Painted stinkfish, Eocallionymus papilio. 3.4 m.
 

Nudibranch, Dendrodoris gunnamatta. 3.4 m.
 

Mourning cuttlefish, Sepia plangon. 2.9 m.