It has been way too long since I have been diving. What with work, the weather, too cold, too wet, reluctant dive buddies and any other number of reasons it just simply has not happened since July! Last Thursday night I needed to travel south for non diving reasons and decided that since I was […]
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The Red, Red Sea
Well, more orange perhaps, but plenty of deep deep colour. This was the afterglow of tonight’s beautiful sunset on the Grange beach foreshore. The inclement stormy weather of the last few weeks has turned our coastal waters into something akin to an insipid mocha. As a scuba diver I’ll just have to wait until water […]
Read MoreAtomic Mangrove
It looks as if something exploded here in the salty shallows just off Torrens Island One large mangrove might be to blame or possibly the outcome. It is curious to note the perimeter of benthic disturbance encircling the entire group. Perhaps it is indeed the fallout of the large mangrove; wind, waves and tide doing […]
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If scuba diving is a privileged opportunity to experience critters hidden from our world then scuba diving at night takes it into a different, almost alien, world altogether. Strange creatures come out from their secret nooks to search and hunt for prey. Sea lice and phytoplankton swarm dive lights like insects to headlights. Strange creaks, […]
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