Anyone who has dived Rapid Bay Jetty over the last 6 weeks would know how bad the visibility has been. There have been days there when you could not see more than 50cm through the milky brine which always seems to follow a period of northerly fetch. I have heard many different opinions on why […]
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I came across this pair of cuttlefish hovering over the broken bottom under Rapid Bay Jetty. At first I thought they might be juvenile giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) but as I watched I started to wonder if they were already full grown. After some research and further deliberations I’ve decided the only thing I can […]
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Anyone who has seen the movie ‘Life of Pi’ will be familiar with the gorgeous golden tones the producer has rendered into some of the cinematic sequences. It reminded me of how the ‘golden hour’ has become almost sacred to me in terms of filling the world with the most gorgeous light imaginable. Here is […]
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The sunset photographers were out in force tonight down here at Henley Beach. What started out as a promising spectacular sunset with the sun periodically bursting forth from rents in the cloudy western sky soon proved to be a little less than hoped for. There was just too much cloud and the sun disappeared for […]
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I have now seen three difference species of ray down at a Rapid Bay over the last few days. This guy is a masked stingaree (Trygonoptera personata) and although common to South Australian coastal waters was not actually recognised as a unique species until relatively recently, in fact, about the same time I learned to […]
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