I first experienced Marcia Hines on stage at … well let’s just say a long time ago. So it was a wonderful surprise to see the once crowned Australian Queen of Pop again after all these years fronting the Fringe Festival show Velvet. Velvet was as a spectacle I would have paid money to go […]
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On the land leave only footprints. In the ocean leave only ripples. If only we could always live by these rules. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Leave Only Ripples’ 1/640s f/11 ISO160 200mm
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There are many fishes local to a region that you will never find in an aquarium or in the fish markets or even in National Geographic. They are either poisonous, uninteresting, commercially unviable or just plain ugly. The poor Little Scorpionfish (Maxillicosta scabriceps) seems to fall into all categories. Those eyes however are magnificent and […]
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Our Rapid Bay night dive was meant to be about little critters, especially nudibranchs smaller than half my little finder but when this Southern Calamari (Sepioteuthis australis) came into my view I was suitably distracted. In fact I was so distracted in the strong current that I had drifted 70m or more from the jetty […]
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This beautiful creature keeps me coming back over and over looking for nudibranchs under our local jetties. There is nothing really exotic about Ceratosoma brevicaudatum. They are common, easy to find and come in a range of sizes from the size of my fingernail to the length of my hand. In fact it is the […]
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