Just an hour’s drive south of Adelaide is a dive location which evokes adventure, mystery, wonder, danger and awe! Arguably the location of Australia’s most famous shark attack survived by Rodney Fox back in 1963 and the subsequent fatality of Jonathon Lee in 1991. I have dived here many times and just a little anxious […]
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The MV Seawolf lies in 20 meters of water just off the South Australian coastal town of Port Noarlunga; its resting place for the past 18 years. I love the ironic twist of fate that this Japanese fishing trawler has become a home for local reef fish, a host of other marine life and an […]
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Far up into South Australia’s Spencer Gulf, in the rocky shallows of Stony Point near Whyalla, is a very special place where once a year, in the depths of winter, our Giant Cuttlefish congregate to mate and renew. The ongoing struggle between fishers demanding their right to catch and the divers, the snorkellers and environmentalists, […]
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Head out onto the seagrass beds on a Port Noarlunga Night dive and there will be crabs everywhere. At first they will hold their ground, threaten with claws and appear stalwartly menacing. Get a little closer and they will scurry away to stand their ground again from a safer distance. The challenge is not one […]
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If I had to choose two words for the wavy grubfish they would be ‘inquisitive’ and ‘opportunistic’. Move a bit of weed to one side and out will come a wavy grubfish to see if you have dislodged some tiny morsel. Lift a rock to carefully peer underneath and quick as a flash a wavy […]
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