Lonsdale Wall
Depth: 12-40+m
Experience: Level: 3
Site layout:
-Starts at The Rip & extends into the bay nearly 1km
-Almost vertical drop offs, in a series of steps
-Follows the ancestral path of the Yarra river
Points of interest:
-Lonsdale platform is to the West in 13m
- flat rocky kelp covered reef
-Wall is a series of escarpments & undercut ledges
-Caverns at 20m
-Zoanthids, sponges, soft corals, large bryozoan colonies, Butterfly Perch, Long Snouted
Boarfish, Blue Throated Wrasse & Blue Devil Fish
-Past 30m: garden of delicate corals, jewel anemones, hydroids & sea whips
Bottom composition: Rock Wall with kelp
Water movement/currents: Strong tidal currents, dive only on slack water (approx.
30mins). Usually good visibility due to continual flushing with clean ocean water
Hazards: Current, Depth, shipping
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