Rapid Bay is finally starting to clear up again after a few weeks of northerly swell turning the water into milky white.

This dive was very late in the day and as much as I would have not thought there was an undersea equivalent to ‘the golden hour’. Well now I know there is! The soft subdued light still had the quality of a sunlit day with all its specular highlights from the surface and below but the water itself did light up with the diffuse scattering normally associated with turbid water. Note to self, ‘dive this time of day more often’.

A young spider crab checks me out as I swim past and I can almost guess what he is thinking.

Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 649, My Turf’, 1/50s f/8 ISO320 40mm +2