Diving during the transition into twilight is a strange and beautiful sensation. It sneaks up on you stealthily like a high cloud creeping across the sun. At first I am simply aware of a change in mood. Some fish become scarce while others, more at home in the dark places of the sea come out […]
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Decorator crabs make fascinators seem lame in comparison to the extravagance of their accessorising. There are hundreds of species of crabs which decorate themselves in this way and fashion really has nothing to do with it. It’s all about survival. By attaching algae or sponges of their immediate environment they can go about their business […]
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Just imagine being two inches tall, opening your eyes, turning on your torch and coming face to face with … Assuming you are still with me you’d quickly become entranced by those amazing blue-green opalesque eyes and what at first seemed ugly becomes beautiful. You can spot a gurnard perch from quite a distance at […]
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This hand sized fan worm is one of the many spectacular creatures that inhabit our local waters. I say local but it really is another world altogether. It looks like a plant; like some exotic miniature palm tree. This guy however is a worm which builds a tubular casing away from its supporting structure so […]
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In the visual cacophony of this scene the camera has captured everything from the jetty pylons and fish swimming near the surface to the bright orange nudibranch grazing on the rocky reef foreground. Is this really a fish’s eye view within the underwater world? Perhaps, but not for the reasons you might think. Optically speaking […]
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