Lonsdale WallMaxdepth: 12-40+m Experience: Level: 2
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
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