Dive Number: 30 24/04/2010 10.45 Cottage by the Sea
Wind: 15 knot westerlies
Tide: 1.5hrs before 0.43 low tide at the heads
Conditions: Brain fade…i can’t remember! I should have written this up sooner.
Bottom Type: Reef and overhangs on sand base
Visibilty: 6-7m
Water Temp: 18c
Bottom Time: 122 minutes
Max Depth: 8.1m
Air usage: 230bar/2300psi
SAC: 12.7 litres/min
Details: A good dive with lots of critters around including a port jacko shark under some of the shallower overhangs, a crayfish, weedy seadragons, senator wrasse, starfish and Bearded Rock Cod.
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm fisheye, dual SS200 strobe.
Dive Report: Some wierd shaped sponges under an overhang:
There seemed to be more starfish around than usual today…this one must been sitting around for a while and was having a stretch.
A juvenile Blue-throated wrasse was cruising among the beautiful gorgonians and seafeathers.
A six-spined leatherjacket checked out what i was doing under its ledge:
A couple of Bulleyes:
A skull looking out from the sand…(or it could be a banksia seed pod).
These Bearded Rock Cods are really difficult to approach. This one was hiding under the ledges.
A mature Blue throated Wrasse patrolled the sand banks where it rests:
Moonlighters were in the same general vicnity too…
A Senator Wrasse stopped momentarily..a rare occurance.
Another starfish:
The dive was nearing an end and i decided to continue into the shallower areas of reef. Pleasantly suprised to see a Port Jackson Shark under a very unlikely little overhang:
