I normally associate a name like ‘The Pit’ with some lair filled with foul beasts but this place could not be further from that idea. This special location only a short swim from the Edithburgh Jetty never fails to enthrall me with its beautiful white sandy bottom rimmed inside a low circular reef. Schools of […]
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I love firsts! I especially love finding a critter for the first time under Edithburgh Jetty where I have dived hundreds of times over many years. Actually the credit goes to my dive buddy Raymond for finding this rarely seen Southern Crested Weedfish, Christiceps australis. From any other angle it looked like another piece of […]
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As I have said before, one of the most amazing sea creatures to inhabit our coastal waters is the Australian giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. Aside from being the world’s largest cuttlefish species, it is also one of the most curious and engaging and will interact for ages if you want to play. This one occupying […]
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It was one of those occasions where it was tempting to spend a night indoors rather than donning an already cold and wet wetsuit and heading back into the water. The wind had come up to a good 15knots and visibility was rapidly disappearing but I decided that a macro dive should be possible even […]
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Here I was going about my business exploring some of the sea-grass beds out from Edithburgh Jetty when down it swooped. Like a magpie dive-bombing an unsuspecting cyclist my first reaction was to duck. Imagine how funny that would have appeared. And like a magpie it indeed was also a bird, a Pied Cormorant on […]
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