This forest is like non other. It’s enchanted.<\/p>\n
Take a stroll though any old forest anywhere else and the birds fly out of reach, the rodents hide out of sight while the larger animals just run away.<\/p>\n
Take a swim through this forest though and it’s like animal wonderland. Fish fly like birds and butterflies around the trunks from ground to canopy.<\/p>\n
Larger fish cruise through the scene at eye level keeping no more than an arms length out of reach.<\/p>\n
Still larger animals like sharks and rays wander through occasionally, wary but making no attempt to hide as they go about their business.<\/p>\n
Every touchable surface from bottom to sky is teaming with animal life such as sponges, crabs, sea stars, ascidians and invertebrates.<\/p>\n
This enchanted place under the old Rapid Bay Jetty is my kind of forest.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Enchanted Forest’ 1\/125 f\/9 ISO640 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This forest is like non other. It’s enchanted. Take a stroll though any old forest anywhere else and the birds fly out of reach, the rodents hide out of sight while the larger animals just run away. Take a swim through this forest though and it’s like animal wonderland. Fish fly like birds and butterflies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,113,1505,125,1506,34,135,1504,127,111,112,67,115,197],"class_list":["post-5971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blackandwhite","tag-diving","tag-enchanted","tag-fish","tag-forrest","tag-jetty","tag-monochrome","tag-oldwives","tag-pylons","tag-rapidbay","tag-scuba","tag-seascape","tag-southaustralia","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}