Day 700, Lady Bay

I remember the first time I laid eyes on this scene 25 years ago as vividly as if it were yesterday. This sweeping stretch coastline from Normanville to where the road heads inland and down on to Cape Jervis overlooks Lady Bay out to sea and Rapid Head out to the west. Last night we […]

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Day 699, Liquidity

Capturing movement in water is a tricky business. If you are too fast the water looks like frozen ice. Too slow and it looks like mist. Somewhere either side of these extremes there is a range of exposure times where the movement simply makes the water look blurred. Then there is that sweet spot where […]

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Day 698, Symbolic Sponge

This amazing sponge has been a deep water landmark for me since the first time I cam across it more than 4 years ago. We really do get some big sponges here in South Australia and have some incredible sponge gardens which leave anything tropical in their salty wake. What we have is cold to […]

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Day 697, Ocean’s Eleven

We all like to see symmetry in nature. Animals balanced from left to right are common place but most curious of all are animals structured as a prime numbers. Whether we realise it or not prime number configurations are common in plants and we see them everyday so they just seem normal. Primes in the […]

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Day 696, Precariously Perched

Rapid Bay is becoming a bit of a regular drawcord for me not just for the diving but for the land and seascapes as well. Here at the eastern end, fishers perch precariously on the rocks while a gentle sea laps on the shingled beach. It’s great to have a moody sky again after the […]

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