Dive Number: 27 10/04/2010 12.05 Cottage by the Sea
Wind: 15 knot westerlies
Tide: 1 hour before 0.57 low tide at the heads
Conditions: Mostly dark and overcast day with occasional patches of sunlight. Fairly surgey and low visibility.
Bottom Type: Rocky reef ledges
Visibilty: 4-5m
Water Temp: 18c
Bottom Time: 102 minutes
Max Depth: 8.1m
Air usage: 190bar/2700psi
SAC: 12.9 litres/min
Details: After some fin strap issues that required some gaffa tape magic to fix, I had the dreaded ‘hotshoe adaptor’ problem I had a few weeks ago…so much for me checking these things out before heading down to the dive site! Anyway, after I got underwater things went well but the vis wasn’t the best. Sometimes bad conditions pay off though with more creatures out and about feeling more protected by the bad vis.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm fisheye, dual SS200 strobe.
Dive Report: After descent I was greeted immediately by a young cuttlefish that was out from beneath the ledges and frolicking around the seagrass.
Moving further along, I spotted the big old cuttlefish i saw a couple of weeks ago. 
He wasn’t happy this time around and spat some junk at me..well..into the water anyway. He then went into the posture below, waggling his tenticles at me in some type of intimidation display…it worked!
While he was doing this ANOTHER small cuttlefish approached ,and he wasn’t happy about this eaither and quickly advanced towards the smaller cuttlefish. Look how dark and angry he looks:
I decided to leave this guy alone and took a few pics of the youngster that was keeping its distance:
He soon became intrigued with the camera and couldn’t get enough of the reflection.
You usually dont see cuttlefish out in the segrass, but it made for a great shoot.
Moving on, i started looking under the legdes, and the resident blue devils showed up:
Schools of tiny bullseye’s fill the black voids of the caves.
Gorgonians fan out from the ledge tops:
And colourful sponges layer the walls.
A cottage dive is never complete without an Old wive shot.
