A whiting is a fish that is apparently very tasty to eat. This Lewis Carroll poem is from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (non-SA readers can find that book here). A Whiting and a Snail –… Continue reading…
Hi all I am sure most of you are happy that Christmas and New Year parties, expenses and rushing around are now behind you. Often this period is so taxing that a vacation early in… Continue reading…
This poem appears in the front matter of Carl Safina’s book Song for the Blue Ocean. It reflects a yearning -as humans faced with a bewildering array of choices – for the apparently sure destiny… Continue reading…
We had a huge number of sea jellies in False Bay at the start of the summer – the usual compass and box jellies, and then some other very large visitors whom I hadn’t met… Continue reading…
The first time I got to observe turtles up close was on our recent (April 2011) trip to Sodwana. We probably encountered ten individual Green turtles on the dives we did. I was amazed by… Continue reading…
Can we top The Shrimp? The Turtle – Ogden Nash The turtle lives ‘twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so… Continue reading…
Dive date: 19 April 2011 Air temperature: 22 degrees Water temperature: 24 degrees Maximum depth: 15.9 metres Visibility: 10 metres Dive duration: 59 minutes
Chain is so named because there is a ship’s anchor chain lying across the reef (hard to spot – I didn’t see it). This was my favourite dive in Sodwana this time around. Dive date:… Continue reading…
Wired magazine, source of many things interesting, published an article breaking down the depths of the sea according to who – or what – can get there. Check it out here. Unfortunately it’s in imperial… Continue reading…
Dive date: 17 April 2011 Air temperature: 24 degrees Water temperature: 24 degrees Maximum depth: 17.8 metres Visibility: 20 metres Dive duration: 60 minutes
