The Tasmanian Blenny, (Parablennius tasmanianus), is one of those wonderful little critters which can make you smile or even laugh underwater. Cute, cheeky and full of attitude they will play peek-a-boo with a diver and camera for as long as your patience or tolerance to cold water will last. This little guy had a cosy […]
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Marine images of shellfish are not high on the list of glamorous marine subjects. True, most shellfish find it hard to capture attention the way sharks, whales, brightly coloured reef fish and any number of other fascinating marine creatures do though there are exceptions. The first time I came upon a Black Cowry (Zoila friendii) […]
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SpongeBob Most South Australian’s experience with crabs involves eating them or catching them and usually if they are local they are our blue swimmer species. As divers we do see blue swimmer crabs in Saint Vincent’s Gulf but most crabs we see around jetties and reefs are way more interesting. We have spider crabs and […]
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These yellowtail seemed so regimented into their ‘march on by’ that I could not help but imagine they had been given their marching orders. Although this looks like a night shot it was actually created in full daylight by using a combination of bright strobe lighting to ‘drown out the daylight’ and then pulling back […]
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A few weeks ago I first noticed the behavior of a male toadifsh (Omegophora armilla) collecting objects and filling a discarded bucket with them. On this dive I found another toadfish behaving in a similar way but this time filling a large sponge. I wonder if they have completed their collections yet? What happens when […]
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