The beautiful fan worm Sabellastarte australiensis looks all the world like a miniature palm tree in an exquisite coral and ascidian garden. Just a tiny part of the greater landscape under Edithburgh Jetty.
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Critter in a Half Shell
When you play the game ‘what critter is that?’ long enough you eventually start talking Latin. It’s not by choice but most critters that live on the ocean floor are only known by Latin names. This little guy, Tylodina corticalis, is a primitive notaspid (more Latin) or more commonly a ‘side gilled slug’ (finally some […]
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Edithburgh
We’ve just returned home from a weekend away in the small coastal town of ‘Edithburgh’ on South Australia’s ‘York Peninsula’ and we enjoyed every moment there. Edithburgh is one of my ‘happy places’. In once place you can find a slow paced idyllic country town, one the best jetties for benthic marine life in Australia […]
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Lucky Strike Nugget
Today I was lucky enough to photograph this beautiful chunk of specimen gold in quartz. Here with my watch placed on top for scale is 2.6 kilograms of gold in a 4.6 kilogram nugget specimen. A lucky strike indeed for a very lucky amateur prospector who found this gorgeous rock last month in central Victoria. […]
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Somewhere on that Horizon
Out there, to the west, silhouette by a shrouded sunset, four ships make their way south. I have no idea what cargo they carry, the souls on board or the nations they herald from. Life at sea is not as hard as it once was and a little part of me anchored to dry land […]
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