I’d often seen snapper before on the wreck of the ex-HMAS Hobart but usually small ruggers and often large schools of them. The occasional large snapper would cruise past from time to time but never really big and always very flighty. On this dive however we discovered several large, metre plus, fish sheltering inside the […]
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Expansive vistas are hard. Looking out over a landscape that takes your breath away and trying to articulate to someone else why is the realm of poets. It’s not easily expressed. It’s easy to see why you say; “just look at it, out there, at all of it!’ And that’s it right there, the ‘all […]
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There is nothing like being out on the sea with an unblemished sky above and the mysteries of the ocean below. I love it. Sometimes she’s calm and gentle, inviting, caressing. Sometimes she’s indifferent throwing her weight around to remind me not to get complacent. Sometimes she’s a real challenge, scary, pushing my limits, keeping […]
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The end of a perfect day. The wind has calmed and the seas have smoothed at least for a while. In a few minutes the sun will be gone and the azure blues of twilight will replace the golden glow of sunset. Until then a fiery spotlight holds us in a silhouette as we gaze […]
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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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