Port Hughes jetty was a welcome respite to a blown out Edithburgh. Shallow, gentle, plenty of fish action and then there were the jellies! Hundreds of them floating past in the gentle current. Fortunately these guys had no sting, at least none I was aware of even as several of them brushed past my exposed […]
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Edithburgh is not always a pretty dive! This night dive with Ken, Damian, Alistair and Alexius was more like swimming through breakfast cereal in a washing machine than the pleasant gentle experiences I normally associated with Edithburgh Jetty. Still we all took down our macro gear in the hope we would pull something out. In […]
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There’s a bit of action down at Rapid Bay at the moment. It seems that spider crabs are pairing off to do their thing. This pair of majid spider crabs ,Leptomithrax gaimadii seem happy enough to make a spectacle of themselves though I am not sure that the smaller female has any say in things […]
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The worst way to try and photograph fish underwater is by chasing them! How would you feel if a huge black one eyed monster 10 times larger than you started chasing you in the street for a photograph or perhaps lunch! To capture these beautiful zebra fish I simply sat under the this collapsed structure […]
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Sunday was hot, very hot and at 39 degrees C in the shade being underwater was one of the best places to escape. The visibility was not too bad and the warm 23 degree C water was like being in the bath, I could have stayed under all day if I could have made my […]
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