It was one of those occasions where it was tempting to spend a night indoors rather than donning an already cold and wet wetsuit and heading back into the water. The wind had come up to a good 15knots and visibility was rapidly disappearing but I decided that a macro dive should be possible even […]
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Here I was going about my business exploring some of the sea-grass beds out from Edithburgh Jetty when down it swooped. Like a magpie dive-bombing an unsuspecting cyclist my first reaction was to duck. Imagine how funny that would have appeared. And like a magpie it indeed was also a bird, a Pied Cormorant on […]
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An amazing diving day at a location I’ve not dived for some time. The Bluff, a prominent land feature at the western end of Encounter Bay is not the most pleasant place to dive. It demands a little bit of work with ocean swell coming on a rocky entry. Once in there is the constant […]
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A family of four, two best friends, swimmers silhouetted and one lone aeroplane. Another amazing Henley Beach sunset and some are still completely unaware of the extraordinary sky show unfolding. Oh well, at least they are all doing something just as wonderful at the end of one very hot summer day Photo: Robert Rath, ‘What […]
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I watch in awe as the dark smudge in the ocean to the north finally reveals itself as a long distance swimmer. Unlike the robotic repeats of swimming pool confined laps the ocean is a very different place. With no bottom to rest on, no black line to follow, no turns to reset and no […]
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