Medusa

Can you just imagine for a moment at the end of each tentacle a pair of eyes, a mouth and fangs!? Good thing it’s not Medusa or I might have become too heavy to swim back to the surface again. Anemones are usually associated tropical waters, large masses of waving tentacles and cute little anemone […]

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Creature of Colours

Back home again and what better place to jump back into local water again than a midnight dive at Port Noarlunga. The visibility was not great, there was some surge and a strong current but nothing stopping another great macro photography session. There was not much critter action around aside from a huge amount of […]

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Submerged Sunset

For those back on shore a brilliant yellow sun hovers precariously above a flat expansive western horizon. Like a dry swimmer testing the water it first dips a little into the water and then more and more as it’s seeming water confidence grows. Eventually it is gone beneath the distant waves. Here under the water […]

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Underwater Port Supporter

The Magpie Morwong, Cheilodactylus nigripes is one of our most common reef fish and I just happened upon this one nonchalantly hanging around. Normally I can’t get this close (needed when using a wide angle lens ) but on this occasion this guy hung there as if just saying g’day. A real poser! Anyone not […]

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Sunlight and the Starfish

I’ve tried to work out who this guy is. It could be Echinaster varicolor or perhaps Pseudonepanthia troughtoni or even Nectria ocellata. I will leave that one up to the experts and concentrate on the shadows, the sunlight and the starfish. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Star in the Spotlight’ 1/200 f/22 ISO800 15mm

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