This feathery looking thing is actually a worm. It’s a Southern fan worm Sabellastarte australiensis Sometimes they are even called Feather Duster Worms and just like its cleaner namesake those appendages sweep the water clean hoping to find nutrition in the suspended particles floating by. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Feather Duster’ 1/200s f/32 ISO100 100mm
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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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The beautiful Wilpena Pound is an ancient geological formation which looks like a giant crater and is something of a temperate oasis in the semi-arid Flinder Ranges. Off in the distance what appears to be a gentle saddle separating left and right sides is the incredible Edeowie Gorge. The small triangular peak a little to […]
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When I was thirteen years old I remember being on a walk in the Flinders Ranges and walking into a great big net spread between two trees. I also remember that it did not break and I had to extricated myself from it by walking out backwards. It was the web of a Golden Orb […]
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The southern wall of Wilpena Pound is fortified with the Rawnsley Bluff escarpment. Anyone approaching the pound from the south gets to watch it rise larger and larger until it looms above them on their left as they make their way up the eastern side. This region of South Australia is considered arid and only […]
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