Observations made during our recent dive at Port Noarlunga Reef
Our dive plans at Port Noarlunga reef on 24th March didn’t quite go to plan, but then we had a chance to make a few observations during our swim back…
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Our dive plans at Port Noarlunga reef on 24th March didn’t quite go to plan, but then we had a chance to make a few observations during our swim back…
40 years ago, back in 1983, there was no Internet whilst I was the Editor for our Society’s newsletter. I still could have done a little more research towards the…
In 2011, this Common Weedfish, Heteroclinus perspicillatus, was stalking a Rockpool shrimp, Palaemon serenus, which it later consumed. (As posted at https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/10002537#activity_comment_948643c9-28f5-4479-b730-e7f9dd2e9a28 ) Both these weedfishes and shrimps are very…
(This article is a re-write of one published in our 2006 Journal, because it was only one of the early drafts that was published in error and some of the…
One of the earliest observations that we made during our dive at the old Rapid Bay jetty on 9th December 2022 was that the Scaly Fins were guarding the egg…
According to an article on the Australian Museum blog, The fish list: A decade in the making by Dr Joseph DiBattista, Curator, Ichthyology, Australian Museum, “the number of fish species…
My snorkel buddy Dan and I sighted this Smooth Stingray, Bathytoshia brevicaudata, in Angas Inlet (between Torrens Island & Garden Island) in early February 2017: – We had been snorkelling…
Canopy algae are a major component of Blue Carbon fixation. Whilst diving at The Bluff (Rosetta Head) on 27th October 2022, I found this Western Pacific Purple Sea Urchin, Heliocidaris…
This is an old low, resolution slide scan of an adult tubemouth, Siphonognathus argyrophanes, likely being cleaned by some pencil weed whiting among the Posidonia under the eastern arm of…
David Muirhead recently posted this photo of a bluethroat wrasse, Notolabrus tetricus from old Rapid Bay jetty on 1st October 2022 on iNaturalist at https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/139393179 : – David gave the…