Back in Autumn before the winter rains settled in and the sun was still shining, Andy and I took the boat down to dive the beautiful but infamous Aldinga Reef. It was one of those special flat calm days when the universe seems to just say, enjoy. Schools of trevally followed us around the drop-off. […]
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They say of marine life that if you can’t eat it or it’s got no practical use then it will never get anything other than a scientific name. Well I have a third reason, being spiked by a sea urchin and needing something pronounceable to swear at! The long-spine urchin, Centrostephanus tenuispinus, is actually quite […]
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I’d often seen snapper before on the wreck of the ex-HMAS Hobart but usually small ruggers and often large schools of them. The occasional large snapper would cruise past from time to time but never really big and always very flighty. On this dive however we discovered several large, metre plus, fish sheltering inside the […]
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Of all the strange creatures that keep their own secret lives in the waters of Southern Australia, Erskin’s Basket Star is up there in the realm of ‘oh wow’! As a starfish, and more specifically, a ‘brittle star’ they resemble some weird brain-like structure. About the size of a pair of clenched fists they hide […]
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Inquisitive, opportunistic and oh so photogenic! The wavy grubfish is just as eager to please the lens as wait for me to disturb some unsuspecting lunch! Move a rock or disturb some weed and wavy grubfish will be there in a moment to see if you have provided lunch. Anything you do which might drive […]
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