Rapid Bay did not disappoint us this weekend with 10m visibility, minimal currents, warm weather and even the water is not so cold anymore. Hanging around the t-section of the old jetty we discovered a huge school of Yellowtail Scad (Trachurus novaezelandiae). Initially they were timid but after a while they became used to us, […]
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This school of Yellowtail at Rapid Bay are not the easiest to photograph with their super silvery reflective scales. Fire a couple of strobes and be prepared for big bright overexposed blotches. When you do get it right (and these guys are still overexposed) they look like swimming skeletons. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Skeleton School’, 1/200s […]
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