Here’s another biscuit star from Sunday’s dive at Rapid Bay. This little guy was as obvious as a red giant in a dark sky. Its bright orange stood out from the edge of my vision only to become so much more vivid in the white light of my strobe. Not much colour variation here, just […]
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The number of and variety of seastars we saw at Rapid Bay on Sunday was just wonderful. The biscuit stars alone were both numerous and incredibly varied in their colours and patterns. This little biscuit star perched atop an old pylon stump could not have found a better place to get its portrait taken while […]
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Isolation need not be lonely or isolating. As vague as the directives here may be, travel for essential reasons does includes health and well-being. For many, and perhaps the community, that ‘call to stay home’ that we’ve all been told might do more harm than good. To go out and find a place in the […]
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Like a forest in decay the old Rapid Bay jetty lingers on and on and on. Year by year planking that once felt footsteps, then seagulls, fall in storms and are washed away. Pylons decay and fall to the ocean floor. Eventually the old jetty will fall completely into the sea but this forest will […]
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Lying on the ocean floor staring up through the pylons of the old Rapid Bay Jetty I am struck by how much life abounds irrespective my being here. The ocean abounds in light, and life and sound and though devoid of the smells of a terrestrial forest the salty taste more than makes up for […]
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