Nestled in a clump of rocky reef at 20m this Brownspotted Wrasse (Notolabrus parilus) is doing what all good wrasse do at eleven o’clock, sleeping. Sleeping fish are an amusing part of night diving. They do not lay there with eyes closed but seem to be in some vacant trace staring out into the ocean. […]
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Silhouette Snapper
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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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 […]
Read MoreAnother Cowfish
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, […]
Read MoreCuriosity
One thing scuba divers get to experience is the curiosity of wildlife unimpeded by fear. It is something most walkers of wilderness and bush will rarely find as animal run or hide from an apex predator. Go for a dive however and the animals pretty quickly work out how slow, clumsy and awkward we are […]
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