I’ve been holding off on this post chiefly because hermit crabs are devilishly difficult to photograph. They look really cool, beetling around on the sand, but getting the camera to an angle that captures their… Continue reading…
Tony and I installed a small artificial reef on the sand at Long Beach on 20 November last year. We checked on it after 10 days, and again after nearly 4 weeks, and then did… Continue reading…
I really, really hate sea lettuce. It does this (see above) to the beach after rough sea conditions, and (see below) it’s really, really annoying on a dive. The only good thing about sea lettuce… Continue reading…
I’ve described (and illustrated) the remarkable ability of starfish to regrow limbs when they come a cropper. But sometimes we see starfish that are stubbornly resisting the five limbs trend… Either they haven’t started growing… Continue reading…
You’d almost think that Mr Whitman was a diver himself… The World Below the Brine – Walt Whitman The world below the brine, Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves, Sea-lettuce,… Continue reading…
After deciding that an artificial reef would be a cool project to do at Long Beach, Clare, Kate and I installed the reef on 20 November 2010, and revisited it on 30 November. Clare and… Continue reading…
Ten days after installing our artificial reef at Long Beach, we paid it a visit to see how it had held up. The southeaster had been blowing very strongly since we put it in the… Continue reading…
Tony and I have been itching to dive the jetty in front of Bertha’s for some time. We enjoy eating take away dinners on the steps there, and watching the fishermen trying to catch squid… Continue reading…
Here’s a rough edit of a lovely dive we did at Long Beach last year (Clare twisted my arm to put this up – I’m not happy with the state of polish of the final… Continue reading…
I find klipfish the most frustrating creatures to identify – they come in a bewildering array of colours and patterns, and I am waiting impatiently for Guido Zsilavecz of SURG‘s book on klipfish to be… Continue reading…
