It was not meant to be a Rapid Bay night dive. It was not even meant to be a dusk dive but in the end it was a race against the light.<\/p>\n
As our days are as short as they will be for the year it is easy to get caught out not planning an afternoon dive early enough to beat the sunset.<\/p>\n
I remember looking up at the dappling yellow and greens of the sunset above us and we still had not found any leafy seadragons.<\/p>\n
Then as the undersea gloom of dusk descended we found them and to our delight we found an entire family, two adults and one juvenile.<\/p>\n
For the next 20 minutes we played in the gloom until it was too dark to focus and it was too cold to bare.<\/p>\n
It was never the plan but in the end it was wonderful to experience the leafy’s at dusk as the gloom engulfed us.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Dusk Dragons’, 1\/60s f\/10 ISO800 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was not meant to be a Rapid Bay night dive. It was not even meant to be a dusk dive but in the end it was a race against the light. As our days are as short as they will be for the year it is easy to get caught out not planning an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124,1092,113,1582,1091,34,198,195,465,106,196,111,112,199,67,115,197],"class_list":["post-6077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-algae","tag-camoflage","tag-diving","tag-dusk","tag-hidden","tag-jetty","tag-leafy","tag-leafyseadragon","tag-nature","tag-night","tag-phycoduruseques","tag-rapidbay","tag-scuba","tag-seadragon","tag-seascape","tag-southaustralia","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077","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=6077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6079,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions\/6079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}