Dive Details

Location

Date

Sunday 25 June 2017

Time

8:14am - 9:40am

Details

Roney has found a new entry point for The Monument. We walked along the rocks towards The Steps and entered off a rock shelf. It was a little tricky due to the high tide but fine because of the calm conditions. I did lose my glove on entry because I forgot to put it on. I then lost my port cover while looking for my glove. No worries, the conditions were fantastic. Visibility was 10 to 15 metres, water temperature between 18 and 19°C and there was very little surge. We swam to the sand line and turned right and headed for The Steps for a short while. I was hoping to find the orange painted angler I'd seen on my last dive in this part of Kurnell. I wasn't able to find it.

We turned and headed towards The Monument. At around Block Rock I spotted a weedy seadragon on the sand line. I then found the little orange painted angler I'd seen a few weeks ago. I pointed it out to Sue, Roney and Dama.

Just before the Deep Wall I spotted another diver taking selfies with a weedy seadragon. After he finished I took ID photos of the weedy and then came across another one a little further along.

While looking at the side of the rock where some pot-bellied seahorses used to be I spotted a black painted anglerfish ambling along the rock. I wonder if it was the same one Dama found a month or so ago.

We swam further along the wall and near the end I found a Nembrotha sp. nudibranch. I'm sure this is the same one a few times before. A little further along I spotted a pair of octopus mating, the male on top of the rock and the female at the base. I pointed them out to Sue.

A little further along at the rock covered in Carijoa I spotted two pygmy pipehorses, a pinky red male (I wonder if it is the same one from a couple of months ago) and a cryptic female. I showed them to Sue and Dama.

I headed up to the rock where the small red male pygmy pipehorse had been. As I approached I spotted a giant cuttlefish under the rock. I looked all over the rock for the red male but couldn't find him but I did find a cryptic female.

I swam up to the rock with the White's seahorses. I looked at the side of the rock where the female has been but couldn't see her. I searched the top of the rock and found the male. I checked the side again and found the female. She'd been there the whole time. Sue and Roney left at this point and Dama and I continued.

I only had around 70 bar of air so I made a bee line to Four Pygmies Rock. I found the male in the purple sponge but couldn't find any others. We then slowly made our way up to the top of the North-South wall and then headed for the exit. We got out on the point.

Buddy

Dama and Roney Rodrigues, Sue Liu

Seas

Slight

Visibility

10 to 15 metres

Duration

86 minutes

Maximum depth

13.1 m

Average depth

10.8 m

Water temperature

17.2°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEST

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

Low

3:12am

0.19m

High

9:12am

1.52m

Low

2:53pm

0.41m

High

9:23pm

2.10m