DIVE LOG AUSTRALASIA FEB 2025 ISSUE 410

Blue Kneed Sea Spiders and Red Fingered Anglers fish text and photos by Lynne Tuck E very now and then I have a dive that stands out from the rest. At the end of January I had one of those dives. I wasn’t expecting much, jumping in on a dropping tide, visibility wasn’t great and the surge was wreaking havoc with my cameras focusing ability.

My buddy and I were diving the Steps, Kamay Bay National Park in Kurnell, the sponge gardens there are one of my favourite dives. Seeing familiar faces in the carpark, exchanging information on what we saw where on our previous dives. It’s a nice social network, even if I’m hopeless at remembering names! My buddy, Sharon and I, found the two Red Fingered Anglerfish. A Grey version and the yellow/orange version that always makes me think it looks like a drag queen with those big red lips! The white Pygmy Pipehorse, the mating pair of Pot belly Seahorses that have been around the same rock for quite some time and the stunning nudibranch Miamira. My favourite of the day was the blue kneed spiders. Chris a regular diver at the steps has been finding these spiders for a few weeks. Someone had shown Sharon a group of three spiders in some dense swaying weed, I couldn’t get my camera to focus; so frustrating! Later in the dive, I found my own spider accidently and managed some photos.

What a dive! Thanks Sharon and thank you to all those people at the Steps that make it such a nice social scene!

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Dive Log Australasia #410 February 25

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