Location: Ricketts Point.
Date: 29/10/10
Max Depth: 3.8m
Dive Time: 25mins
Temp: 14C
Visibility: 6-8m
Thermal: Drysuit
Weight: 27lbs
Another place where off-street parking is expensive ($3/hour between 8am-8pm) and again you have free parking out on Beach Road but I'm not sure if there's a limit.
This site is shallow with quite a long swim out to divable water.
The plan was to try and find the Port Jackson sharks which have come back for the summer and love to lie in some of the gutters. Phil assured me he knew where these were, we just had to surface swim around for a bit to locate them. (My fins are suited to going slow and are killers when surface swimming.)
We must have swum around for 30 mins or so without success before finally giving up deciding to just have a dive. Total dive time was therefore only 25 mins, again concerns about parking putting limits on maximum time.
There were a few fish around, I saw a few small snapper but they were too fast for me to photograph. I did manage to find a few Fiddler Rays and skates, urchins and some interesting ascidians.
The sea meadows looked great as did the sea weeds and sponges. I was happy with how well some of my photos turned out, so many great colours.
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