The Tasmanian Blenny, (Parablennius tasmanianus), is one of those wonderful little critters which can make you smile or even laugh underwater. Cute, cheeky and full of attitude they will play peek-a-boo with a diver and camera for as long as your patience or tolerance to cold water will last. This little guy had a cosy […]
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Can you just imagine for a moment at the end of each tentacle a pair of eyes, a mouth and fangs!? Good thing it’s not Medusa or I might have become too heavy to swim back to the surface again. Anemones are usually associated tropical waters, large masses of waving tentacles and cute little anemone […]
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Back home again and what better place to jump back into local water again than a midnight dive at Port Noarlunga. The visibility was not great, there was some surge and a strong current but nothing stopping another great macro photography session. There was not much critter action around aside from a huge amount of […]
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Most sea slugs do not have common names and the fact that we call them nudibranchs is a nice way to divorce ourselves from the idea of their not so pretty, slimy green garden cousins. If this little critter had a common name it might be the Splendid Nudibranch but in the literature it is […]
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I had never dived Nelson Bay before last weekend and as we geared up in the dark at Fly Point for the high tide dive I was acutely aware that I really should dive here in the daylight first. The moment we submerged though I caught sight of my first nudibranch for the dive, then […]
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