Head out onto the seagrass beds on a Port Noarlunga Night dive and there will be crabs everywhere. At first they will hold their ground, threaten with claws and appear stalwartly menacing. Get a little closer and they will scurry away to stand their ground again from a safer distance. The challenge is not one […]
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If I had to choose two words for the wavy grubfish they would be ‘inquisitive’ and ‘opportunistic’. Move a bit of weed to one side and out will come a wavy grubfish to see if you have dislodged some tiny morsel. Lift a rock to carefully peer underneath and quick as a flash a wavy […]
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Sunday’s dive on Seacliff Reef had some of the best visibility I have seen here in our local waters for months. There was almost no need for the sounder as the bottom was perfectly clear 12 meters down beneath the boat. I wished I’d brought a wide angle setup for this dive as the underwater […]
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It’s 11:00pm and most of the sleepy seaside town of Edithburgh has retired for the evening. Meanwhile I make some final adjustments to my new manual focus gear and then head down to the jetty. It was only going to be a short dive with a tiny eight litre scuba cylinder. One and a half […]
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This was my very first visit to the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium and as a diver I was not so sure I was going to enjoy it as much as actually being in the deep wild ocean. Sure there were many amazing creatures I’d only ever seen photographs of but then I have had many […]
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