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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Crabs might not be the most exciting of critters unless you are a foody, a marine biologist or a scuba diver. Most crabs are really quite cool and collected critters that just go about their business picking their way through aquatic carrion oblivious to everything going on around them. This makes them ideal subjects to […]
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Some South Australian scuba divers love doing it on the bottom! That’s where all the benthic action happens and is a treasure trove of sights and wonders most missed by pelagic divers. Here on the bottom amid the sponges and ascidians a world of macro activity is constantly taking place. In this image a grazing […]
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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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I have no idea how many cowfish images I have but the good ones seem to elude me. Still, they make me smile every time one comes into my view. They are bright and cheerful, cheeky, comical, just a little nervous (am I anthropomorphising too much?), sometimes curious but to me always camera shy. Please, […]
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