The conditions today at Rapid Bay were sensational with 15m visibility. I so wished I had set up for wide angle but today’s dive was a macro gear shakedown. Immediately on our decent we came across this beautiful Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. The fact that this macro image make it look like fluorescent coffee beans […]
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A little while after a golden sunset, when the twilight has almost gone but the stars are still timid is time when water and reflections capture and amplify the last light of the day that was. Stark and beautiful this light highlights the trickle we call the Torrens River as it finds its way to […]
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Such a strange name for a strange creature; Goniocidaris tubaria. Actually this odd looking ball of spikey arms is one of our local sea urchins. There really is nothing typical about the appearance of a sea urchin. They all have a hard body called a ‘last’ but the ‘last’ is an internal structure and not […]
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Perhaps once or twice I may have mentioned how much I love Rapid Bay. I personally believe this part of our coastline is a somewhat forgotten treasure with so many people opting for more commercial places to visit on the weekend within that 1-2 hours drive radius around Adelaide. The first time I explored the […]
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Ok so it’s the start of winter and as the water gets colder the neoprene gets thicker, the gloves get donned and the hood gets worn in a kind of claustrophobic sufferance. By now thoughts of exotic warm dive locations are distant memories and the shine of the idea of being a diver is starting […]
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