Anyone who as taken a flash photograph while it is snowing would know just how annoying those fuzzy white blurs of light can be. It’s like the physical world is conspiring against you. You see your subject fine through the rain or snow yet in the captured image the main even is upstaged by a […]
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What an odd shaped blue swimmer crab I thought as it raised it claws to frighten me away. It was not until we met at eye level did the source of the odd symmetry become apparent. I quickly took my photo and then sheepishly backed away hoping to preserve some modesty. After all who wants […]
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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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Here anchored in the calm shallows of Sultana Bay, ‘Miros’ epitomises how to do a socially distant holiday. We are so very lucky here in South Australia with relative freedom to move about and enjoy life with only minor inconvenience. Still, if we find ourselves in lock-down again I wouldn’t mind being all-at-sea in such […]
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These enigmatic and almost unnerving sponges around Edithburgh Jetty seem to me like some ancient sentinel lifeform left to observe the passage of evolution. When I think of them in that way it no longer seems strange that these are animals, not plants, and that it is more than likely that this sentinel began its […]
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