Dive Details

Location

Date

Saturday 13 August 2016

Time

12:33pm - 1:45pm

Details

It was calm enough and the tide was low enough for us to jump in from the low platform. We descended and swam at around 30° to the sand line. Visibility was only around 5 metres with a lot of particulate matter in the water. The temperature was around 17°C. We turned left and headed towards The Steps along the sand line.

We saw our first weedy seadragon (PT2016073101), a large juvenile, near Southern Cross Rock. We saw three more weedy seadragons (PT2015051001, PT2016073102, PT2015062401) in Seadragon Alley.

We continued along the sand line past Big Rock. Just after the rock where the basket star used to be I cut up the reef to the basket star that Sheree found which could be the same basket star. We then swam on to Diversity Rock where I found the female pygmy pipehorse (IL2016061401) but I couldn't find the male.

We followed the sand line a bit further and found weedy seadragon (PT2015061401). While Greg was photographing it another smaller one (PT2016061101) swam out from the kelp. We then headed up the reef to the boulders and started our safety stop as we swam to the exit. We exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Greg Lecoeur

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 metres

Duration

71 minutes

Maximum depth

21.2 m

Average depth

14.0 m

Water temperature

16.1°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

High

3:56am

1.18m

Low

9:46am

0.64m

High

4:30pm

1.51m

Low

11:16pm

0.62m