Day 651, The Lighthouse

The historic Port Adelaide Lighthouse has an amazing history, Prefabricated in England, installed in 1869 at the entrance to the Port River. Moved several times and served until 1985 on South Neptune Island overlooking the seals and the great whites. In 1986 the Lighthouse was moved to its current location here as a tourist icon […]

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Day 650, Fatherly Love

There is something in the water down there at Rapid Bay. Everything seems to be pregnant! Well this Leafy Seadragon is not exactly pregnant. In fact it’s not even a girl but a male expressing its fatherly love. The male Leafy Seadragon takes care of the eggs immediately after they are fertilized for the entire […]

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Day 649, My Turf

Rapid Bay is finally starting to clear up again after a few weeks of northerly swell turning the water into milky white. This dive was very late in the day and as much as I would have not thought there was an undersea equivalent to ‘the golden hour’. Well now I know there is! The […]

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Day 648, No Exit

At first it was the reflections in the window that caught my eye; the cafe across the street, the roadside bench, the exit sign. Then I noticed the textures in the window itself; the misaligned frame, the scratches in the wood, the distorted panes of translucent glass, the dribbled stain of grime. No longer was […]

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Day 647, Twilight Silhouette

This is my favorite time of the day when the colours in the western sky take on the most gorgeous and saturated hues of red, orange, blue, green and purple. In fact it is one huge rainbow wall. What a perfect back-light for a twilight silhouette. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 647, Twilight Silhouette’, 1/160s f/2.8 […]

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