What do dogs and hermit crabs have in common? I wonder what kind of answers I’d get if I strolled down a typical busy shopping mall and asked random passers-by this question? Well to start with, dogs and hermit crabs have two eyes. Perhaps you could even draw some tenuous connection between kennels and shells. […]
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The Mad Hatter
You’d go mad too if you had to carry this home around on your back wherever you went. At least down here you’d not have to worry about clipping power lines, low overhang bridges, getting tangled up in tree line avenues or finding somewhere out of the sun. I found a lot of these little […]
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Three weeks ago on an Edithburgh night dive I found a tiny little leafy seadragon less than two inches long that took my breath away. It was that beautiful red translucent colour of a juvenile probably only a month or so old. This dive I was in for a wonderful treat. I found my not […]
Read MoreNightmare on Kelp Street
It’s night time and you are cruising down Kelp Street looking for a tasty morsel or two. There are no street lamps on the sandy bottom making the ocean floor extra dark. Here the darkness is your friend keeping you safe from monsters. Or is it? A little confused you create some illumination and … […]
Read MoreCrested Weedfish
There is no such thing as being lucky, Luck is everywhere, you just need to persist at something long enough and what to you may seem lucky was simply inevitable all along. This weekend was our second trip to Edithburgh for the year. The weather was perfect creating the opportunity for a number of dives […]
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