Bare Island East 15-03-07

Having completed my solo dive on the West side we wanted to do the East side. We considered circumnavigating but decided that might be too much from the main land. As the bridge was closed we had to climb down from the carpark and walk across the rocks and under the bridge, entering the water on the flat rock shelfs there. We headed across the channel and followed the line of Bare Island. We found the anchor and took some pics of it. We found a juvenile weedie sea dragon, quite small and 2 other adults. I found 2 very small pygmy leatherjackets and a smallish school of striped catfish. These always give me the shivers, somehow they look unpleasant. I also saw a very small gunthers butterfly fish but it managed to evade my lens. We turned, swimming through the gutter and back under the bridge before exiting on the rocks below the car park. A most enjoyable 68 minute dive with Wayne and Robert.