Nestled in a clump of rocky reef at 20m this Brownspotted Wrasse (Notolabrus parilus) is doing what all good wrasse do at eleven o’clock, sleeping. Sleeping fish are an amusing part of night diving. They do not lay there with eyes closed but seem to be in some vacant trace staring out into the ocean. […]
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If you have a taste in music that extends even a little beyond mainstream popular music and you have never heard of Jacob Collier then I suggest you explore his work and see where it takes you. If you are a multi-instrumentalist with a passion for musical theory I might just continue this conversation to […]
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Every body seems to make a fuss when ever we experience a ‘Super Moon’, that full moon in which the perigee of its elliptic orbit brings it closest to the Earth and hence larger in the sky. Nobody pays any attention when the moon is at its apogee, when it’s 15% smaller, colder, lonely and […]
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Over the last few months something quite extraordinary has crept into our kitchen. At first it began as a single green tendril feeling its way skyward from its broad leafy hideaway. It soon bifurcated into two, then four, then eight before tiny little buds began to form on the viney green structure. The buds grew […]
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When I was around 10 years old and on holidays my dad took us fishing the incoming tide of Port Parham. Our daily ritual involved hunting for bait at low tide, digging for worms, muscles and cockles. Cockle were always our prize and were the bait of choice needed to target the whiting that would […]
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