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DIVE SITE NAME:	Oak Park - going south
LOCATION:	Cronulla (NSW)
DIVER RATING:	Open Water
MAX DEPTH:	10 Metres	AVG DEPTH:	8 Metres
AVERAGE VIZ:	5 Metres	ACCESS VIA:	SHORE

HOW TO FIND THE DIVE SITE

Park in Jibbon at Oak Park, and walk to down to the ocean pool. Enter the usual way, but go right towards the Port Hacking River, instead of left (out to NZ)

DIVE SITE DESCRIPTION

This infrequently visited part of Oak Park is a series of rocky reefs, with both rocky and sandy gutters. Instead of following a wall, sand-line or other in and out plan, it is possible to meander up and down the gutters, heading in a generally south, southwesterly direction. Returning is a matter of heading on a reciprocal course, or following the sand-line until its time to head NE to one of the usual exit points.

The area is a mixture of kelp beds, algae and sponge gardens and sand. On the last exploration I saw: fiddler ray, blue groper, maori, snake, crimson banded and inscribed wrasse, pretty polly, herring cale, hundreeds of urchins in crevices, nudibranches - glossodoris atromarginata, bennets hypselodoris, sweet ceretosoma, variable aphelodoris, sweep, schools of mado, yellowtail and longfin pike.

Viz varied, and actually gets better the further we go! Turn around usually occurs around the point the reefs are facing more to the west, close to Bass & Flinders Point. Due to the relatively shallow depth there is often surge, so heavy wether makes it uncomfortable.

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