Dive Number: 51 20/06/2010 15.28 St Leonards Pier
Wind: 10-15 knot Westerlies
Tide: 30mins after 0.40 low tide at Geelong
Conditions: Another ordinary overcast day, but the westerlies had dropped off, and St Leonards is nice and protected from Westerlies and the seas were calm there.
Bottom Type: Pier Pylons on sand base.
Visibilty: 4m
Water Temp: 12c
Bottom Time: 57 minutes
Max Depth: 8.2m
Air usage: 80bar/1200psi
SAC: 13.7 litres/min
Details:
Camera Details: Canon 100mm macro , single SS200 strobe and snoot
Dive Report: I had the snoot and macro lens for this dive, so gave these sand anemones a try. These are difficult to light normally, sinc ethe light bounces off the white sand and blows out the image, so they were the perfect candidate for a snoot.
The snoot also worked well on this ascidian to bring out more of the detail.
This dive was on dusk, and i saw an eye poking out of a old pipe. I haven’t been on many night dives to see octopus, so i was pretty happy to see this guy, even though i did have my macro lens on. I had to make do with lots of eye shots ; )
