Another first for me. Finally after years of diving I have finally found Veronica. I called her Veronica as it is an anagram of Verconia verconis, her real name. She has no common name as is the case with most of our beautifully weird and wonderful sea critters. Unless they are commercially significant or in […]
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The world of macro marine photography is full of life and colours and action that many new divers simply swim on by. However for photographers and those who take the time to look nudibranchs make wonderful subjects due to their diversity of colour and form. This bulldozer of a sea slug, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum, may only […]
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This bizarre looking sea sponge in the sea grass beds off Edithburgh Jetty reminds me of a a cross between a diseased heart and a human brain. It really does look like something that has been recently extracted from an animal and dumped on the ocean floor. Oddly enough this strange looking form is actually […]
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The last time I saw one of these critters was also on a post midnight night dive under Edithburgh Jetty a few months ago. This time however the conditions were a little more inviting without the 15knot onshore winds. As always there was plenty to see and make the effort worthwhile. Nudibranchs, also known as […]
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I spotted this tiny (12mm long) little nudibranch (sea slug) during an amazing Edithburgh Jetty night dive during the early hours of this morning. I am still attempting to identify this little guy but in the mean time I’ll just call it the White Rabbit as the two leading rhinophores look like ears and the […]
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