Can you just imagine for a moment at the end of each tentacle a pair of eyes, a mouth and fangs!? Good thing it’s not Medusa or I might have become too heavy to swim back to the surface again. Anemones are usually associated tropical waters, large masses of waving tentacles and cute little anemone […]
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Back home again and what better place to jump back into local water again than a midnight dive at Port Noarlunga. The visibility was not great, there was some surge and a strong current but nothing stopping another great macro photography session. There was not much critter action around aside from a huge amount of […]
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Most sea slugs do not have common names and the fact that we call them nudibranchs is a nice way to divorce ourselves from the idea of their not so pretty, slimy green garden cousins. If this little critter had a common name it might be the Splendid Nudibranch but in the literature it is […]
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This male Eastern Gobbleguts (Vincentia novaehollandiae) might look like the perfect husband. He will take full responsibility for his future newborns from the moment the female lays her large egg mass. He will protect them from predators, he will regularly roll them about to keep them fresh and aerated and he will have you believe […]
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For many people this may very well be outer space being so removed the comfort of the breathable world. It’s not even the lovely crystal clear underwater landscape of a Cousteau Documentary with only a few meters of visibility. The place is however a very real and very terrestrial Broughton Island and the pace is […]
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