The European Featherduster Worm (Sabella spallanzani) is an unwanted and feral guest in our South Australian waters. For the most part they are quite unattractive, living in silty conditions and lacking the vibrant rich orange fans of its native local cousin. Anyone who has dived recently in Westlakes waterways would attest to the ugly mess […]
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Old Friend
It has been way too long since I have been diving. What with work, the weather, too cold, too wet, reluctant dive buddies and any other number of reasons it just simply has not happened since July! Last Thursday night I needed to travel south for non diving reasons and decided that since I was […]
Read MoreCuttle’s Last Stand
Impressive as his pose may be there is not much fight or life left in this big male cuttlefish. Countless fights have fought for the reward of an intimate encounter. He’s still in one piece so there is a very good chance his progeny and genetic line will live on. That’s all that matters in […]
Read MoreDrawing Back the Curtains
Framed by curtains of rain, bathed in sunset gold, the sun peeks below the dark clouds of the receding winter. Not since I was a child do I remember rain like this season has brought. As if the curtains of winter were finally drawn back, this weekend was the first in weeks the rain has […]
Read MoreLast Rays at Waukaringa
As we sat out watching the sun set on the distant Flinders Ranges and bathing the Waukaringa Hotel ruins in amber light, we were not alone. Along side us, sunbaking on her own piece of ruin, this Bearded Dragon cared not for the visual beauty of the outback, only the last rays of sun keeping […]
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