So, after diving Rapid Bay as a fun exploratory dive last Sunday, our friend George was keen to see some leafies (last Sunday we didn’t get much further than the T-Section and generally the leafies are hiding behind the T-section on the right hand side). Good thing we had two leafy sea dragon guided dives planned with a diver from Brisbane who especially flew in to see the dragons!

After an early start with gear fitting and paperwork at the shop, Andrew and George drove down to Rapid Bay again and kitted up for the first dive! After seeing a lot of the usual suspects (nudibranchs, spider crabs, cuttlefish, etc.) before the T-section they found their first leafy sea dragon on the grass right before the T-section on the right hand side! A beautiful young dragon floated gracefully above the sea grass and was happy to pose for a few pictures, before they moved on to look for more dragons behind the T.

After going through the T-section, which is the best part of this jetty, Andrew turned right towards the grid and the long beams that can be found on the bottom here and before they knew it they had found another dragon, most likely a lot older than the first one as this one was very big. This could have been the male that had the eggs on its tail earlier this season, but we weren’t sure by looking at the pictures!

On the second dive both dragons were re-visited for a few more photographs and more time was spent at the T-section with the massive schools of fish in between the pylons! The water temperature was about 20 degrees and there was a slight current running this day.