9 species sighted at Fish Cage, Mooloolah River, La Balsa Park, Buddina, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. 28-12-2023.
A single solo shore entry dive with Gary of 60 minutes, 2.0 m, maximum depth 5.0 m, 26 C water temperature, up to 4 m viz.
With a 32 C temp forecast for today I thought a nice river dive was in order to test out the full-faced mask! The water temp all dive 26 C. Diving a full-faced mask is very unusual. I can talk and breathe through my nose. Quite a bit of air was escaping through the top of the mask and when I pushed the mack to my face the bubbles stopped, hummm. While feeling this new thing out I managed to record a few species.
Species and numbers recorded:
Goniobranchus setoensis -1
Gymnodoris sp. 22 -2
Hypselodoris obscura -2
Hypselodoris sp. 10 -1
Liloa brevis shell -1
Murphydoris cobbi -8
Rostanga sp. 1 -many young
Unidentia sp. 1 -8
Unidentia sp. 14 -3
Sunny entry
2.0 m clarity
Unidentia sp. 1
Substrate upon descent
Murphydoris cobbi
Rostanga sp. 1 many young
Hummmm
Substrate
Liloa brevis
Unidentia sp. 1
Murphydoris cobbi x2
Murphydoris cobbi
Unidentia sp. 1
Unidentia sp. 1
Gymnodoris sp. 22 x2
Unidentia sp. 14
Murphydoris cobbi x2
Goniobranchus setoensis
Hypselodoris obscura
Hypselodoris sp. 10
Unidentia sp. 14
