While my dive buddy was busy wrestling her GoPro back from an eleven armed seastar this little guy was swimming around her content it was hiding in plain sight. It was being as cute as it was being ridiculous. On a typical southern coastline dive you will often come across a pygmy leatherjacket hiding next […]
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Over Reef and Under Cloud
Port Noarlunga’ Jetty is one of Adelaide’s most popular close at hand shore dive sites. I’ve been here so many times on so many dives and seen so many amazing things but never this!!! All being well I’ll soon be underwater here again too. Hopefully under a cold clear starlit night sky and calms seas, […]
Read MoreIt Never Rains Underwater
It’s funny how I react to the rain when dressed top to toe in a neoprene wet suit. An umbrella makes it seem like there is no rain at all. A raincoat creates a cozy cocoon around dry clothes within. To not leave the house at all is either being slave to the weather and […]
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Here amid the myriad of small cave structures of Noarlunga Reef sleeps another of ‘Porties’ local resident species, a Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. While doing some camera tests on the weekend I found myself peering into all the dark places I could find attempting to capture images without strobe lighting. Caves, nooks and ledges […]
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