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 […]
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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 […]
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Well, more orange perhaps, but plenty of deep deep colour. This was the afterglow of tonight’s beautiful sunset on the Grange beach foreshore. The inclement stormy weather of the last few weeks has turned our coastal waters into something akin to an insipid mocha. As a scuba diver I’ll just have to wait until water […]
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A beautiful pelican glides into view as I watch from the tranquil river bank. How strange it seems to me, this green brown waterway so far from the ocean. In the river’s reflection I see another creature, a creature of dry, arid places. A desert dweller lurks here too in the most incongruous of realms; […]
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He’s on the hunt for a breeding mate. Iridescent waves of chromatophore colour ripple from head to tail. Tenticles outstretch ready to caress or to fight. He’s beautiful and he knows it and nothing will stop him from getting what he wants, … except perhaps the hundreds of other males around him with the same […]
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