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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Rapid Bay was a delight today with almost millpond seas, sunshine and blue skies. Even the water looked clear as we gazed out from the car park and began putting together our gear. A short while later we descended in the cold clear water under Rapid Bay Jetty. We found our first young leafy seadragon […]
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This flighty little character will never compete with the absolute self assurance of Bugs Bunny himself. Still it is easy to anthropomorphically imagine a ‘what’s up doc’ in a thought bubble above this scene. What’s up indeed I thought as I pointed my lens and pressed the shutter. A single click later and my less […]
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Our Rapid Bay night dive was meant to be about little critters, especially nudibranchs smaller than half my little finder but when this Southern Calamari (Sepioteuthis australis) came into my view I was suitably distracted. In fact I was so distracted in the strong current that I had drifted 70m or more from the jetty […]
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This is the kind of image I could show my mother and she’d be none the wiser as to what she was looking at. If she really knew what was going on here she’d probably blush and respond with a ‘that’s nice dear’. These Lined Dumpling Squid ,also know as Pyjama Squid (Sepioloidea lineolata), are […]
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