It’s while after sunset now. The iPhones with their attention spans long since turned from sunset to social no longer observe the western sky. Through twilight, the sky transitions through layers of orange and yellow and green before a deep blue heralds the first evening stars. This is a special time when seabirds skim the […]
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Window on the Aldinga Dropoff
Just an hour’s drive south of Adelaide is a dive location which evokes adventure, mystery, wonder, danger and awe! Arguably the location of Australia’s most famous shark attack survived by Rodney Fox back in 1963 and the subsequent fatality of Jonathon Lee in 1991. I have dived here many times and just a little anxious […]
Read MoreNever Far Away
The ocean calls and calls and calls. It fills our dreams, it nurtures our souls, it pushes busy elsewhere, it draws the world of nature close. Where ever we go or choose to live the ocean will never be far away. … always calling.
Read MoreGrange Gold
I recently spotted a marketing slogan for Adelaide that went something like ‘where the sun sets on the sea’. Funny how I never think of it any other way. I find it oddly disturbing anywhere else to experience an ocean sunrise or worse, a sunset that can’t quite make up it’s mine who’s side it’s […]
Read MoreCold Colour
It’s cold in the water down down here but there is no shortage of colour on the hull of the Seawolf and every reason to keep on diving through the South Australian winter. One thing the cold does is to keep our dives quite short. Not long after reaching the sand and beginning the swim […]
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