Brittle stars are nocturnal and very timid and although very common are almost never seen during the day. This brittle star, Clarkcoma canaliculata is out hunting on sponge and was very sensitive to torch light. Unlike other starfish these guys are fast and agile and can move very quickly if they choose to. To make […]
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Friday night’s dive with Alexius, Ken, Damian and Alistair was sensational! More than two hours underwater down at Rapid Bay presented so many photo opportunities. The only problem was being stuck with one lens configuration, a 100mm macro. During this dive I could have used a wide angle 15mm fish eye or perhaps a 24mm […]
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So why does such a beautiful creature so common to our local jetties have such a hard to produce name such as Ceratosoma brevicaudatum? You could just call it a nudibranch or even a seaslug but these are as vague as calling all dogs, dogs. There are of course many answers to a question like […]
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Port Hughes jetty was a welcome respite to a blown out Edithburgh. Shallow, gentle, plenty of fish action and then there were the jellies! Hundreds of them floating past in the gentle current. Fortunately these guys had no sting, at least none I was aware of even as several of them brushed past my exposed […]
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Edithburgh is not always a pretty dive! This night dive with Ken, Damian, Alistair and Alexius was more like swimming through breakfast cereal in a washing machine than the pleasant gentle experiences I normally associated with Edithburgh Jetty. Still we all took down our macro gear in the hope we would pull something out. In […]
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