Not more than five minutes into Sunday night’s dive I was thinking that it was a really bad idea going diving on dusk with no lighting and a high tide bringing rough seas pounding over the reef filling the water with vision sapping debris. Still this was a shakedown dive and the principle objective was […]
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Suspended in the milky blue haze of a less than ideal Rapid Bay this leafy seadragon seems unperturbed with my presence. When I arrived at Rapid Bay for this dive I looked out at the milky gypsum-dust laden water and nearly left for another location. I am glad I decided to stay and dive here […]
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On my way home one recent afternoon diving the Fleurieu Peninsula, day turned to sunset and then to twilight as the first star of the evening became visible. The simplicity, the colour and form of the scene looking back toward Myponga Beach was just too irresistible to pass up. I got home a little later […]
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Here amid the myriad of small cave structures of Noarlunga Reef sleeps another of ‘Porties’ local resident species, a Port Jackson shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni. While doing some camera tests on the weekend I found myself peering into all the dark places I could find attempting to capture images without strobe lighting. Caves, nooks and ledges […]
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One of the most exciting fish species commonly found on Noarlunga Reef are silver drummer, Kyphosus sydneyanus. They are big, fast, often swim in large schools and are lots of fun to be in the water with. During low tide when the inner reef is protected you might find a handful of them swimming among […]
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