Dive Details

Location

Date

Friday 6 January 2017

Time

1:54pm - 3:01pm

Details

We jumped in at The Steps and descended to sand line. We found a weedy seadragon immediately.

We followed the sand line all the way to Diversity Rock and from their straight to Miamara Rock. I found a tiny Miamira magnifica nudibranch on Miamara Rock.

We swam towards Big Rock to Roney's pygmy pipehorses which were both there. I tried to find Mike's pygmy pipehorse on the way to Big Rock but couldn't find it.

At Big Rock we saw dying/dead blue-lined octopus right on top. If it was still alive it was only barely. I have to assume it was old.

I found a new pygmy pipehorse between Big Rock and Hand Rock. I looked for a second one but couldn't see one. I then found the two pygmy pipehorses on the rock below Hand Rock. Chris found a Ceratosoma brevicaudatum nudibranch near sand line.

We headed back towards The Steps and I again looked for Mike's pygmy pipehorse but didn't find it. We stopped by Roney's pygmy pipehorses on the way and then swam on to Miamira Rock and the basket star.

We swam along the sand line to Little Big Rock and then had another look for the angler which we didn't find. We swam to the boulders and did our saftet stops while swimming to Split Rock. We exited at The Steps.

Buddy

Chris Ross

Seas

Slight

Visibility

5 to 10 metres

Duration

66 minutes

Maximum depth

15.1 m

Average depth

11.8 m

Water temperature

18.6°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

High

3:09am

1.43m

Low

9:04am

0.61m

High

3:11pm

1.46m

Low

9:42pm

0.42m