This Mosaic Leatherjacket, (Eubalichthys mosaicus) on my ‘Barge’ night dive was another unwitting sleep swimming subject as torches and strobes brought light to the darkness. The strange thing about lighting up the night time sea floor it that is seems to have minimal impact on the nocturnal state of its inhabitants. Daytime fishes keep on […]
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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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While my dive buddy was busy wrestling her GoPro back from an eleven armed seastar this little guy was swimming around her content it was hiding in plain sight. It was being as cute as it was being ridiculous. On a typical southern coastline dive you will often come across a pygmy leatherjacket hiding next […]
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Most divers at Rapid Bay perform the usual ritual of crossing the sand from the new jetty to the old before really starting to pay attention to their surroundings. Granted, the old jetty is certainly the draw card here but take the time instead to head off in a different direction, over the seagrass beds […]
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