The beautiful fan worm Sabellastarte australiensis looks all the world like a miniature palm tree in an exquisite coral and ascidian garden. Just a tiny part of the greater landscape under Edithburgh Jetty.
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Critter in a Half Shell
When you play the game ‘what critter is that?’ long enough you eventually start talking Latin. It’s not by choice but most critters that live on the ocean floor are only known by Latin names. This little guy, Tylodina corticalis, is a primitive notaspid (more Latin) or more commonly a ‘side gilled slug’ (finally some […]
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Edithburgh
We’ve just returned home from a weekend away in the small coastal town of ‘Edithburgh’ on South Australia’s ‘York Peninsula’ and we enjoyed every moment there. Edithburgh is one of my ‘happy places’. In once place you can find a slow paced idyllic country town, one the best jetties for benthic marine life in Australia […]
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Looking Through The Clan
This image has been 122 years in the making, 113 of those quietly resting on the sea floor off the South Australian York Peninsula. Forty souls lost their lives that fateful night back in 1909, more than two thirds of her crew. The SS Clan Ranald is one of my all time favourite South Australian […]
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Idyllic Summer
Actually it’s Autumn in Edithburgh when I captured this image but I won’t tell if you don’t. We spend a bit of time every year in this idyllic seaside town and almost always there is a yacht or two moored in the bay. I’d been debating with myself as to the merit of showing this […]
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