Dive Details

Location

Date

Wednesday 11 January 2017

Time

1:41pm - 3:24pm

Details

For the second dive we were just going to potter around at the bottom of the slope and hopefully find the female great seahorse. We jumped in on the northern side of the island to the west of the ramp, surface swap for a short way and descended near the outboard motor. Visibility was down a little from the earlier dive but the temperature was warmer.

We swam over the sand past the boulders to the top of the slope. As we headed down the slope I looked for and found the slender seamoth Donna had found on the previous dive. Farther down the slope we came to the female and small juvenile pygmy pipehorses at the top end of the rock above Pygmy Rock.

I continued on down the slope to look for the great seahorses. I found the male in the kelp near where he'd been on the previous dive. I couldn't find the red indianfish that had been nearby. I found the clown Toby again.

I searched all around the area for the female and Donna and Kim joined me in the search. While looking over near the wall I found a pipefish and pointed it out to Kim and Donna. Donna found a pygmy pipehorse on Juvy Rock and showed me. We did not find the female great seahorse.

We headed slowly back up the slope stopping at the pygmy pipehorses and then the slender seamoth. We made our way in front of the boulders, past the outboard motor and along to the exit.

Buddy

Kim Dinh, Donna Cassidy

Seas

Calm

Visibility

3 to 5 metres

Duration

102 minutes

Maximum depth

13.2 m

Average depth

9.9 m

Water temperature

20.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

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

Low

1:29am

0.36m

High

8:00am

1.93m

Low

2:41pm

0.22m

High

8:38pm

1.46m