Territorial dispute by male Senator Wrasse, Pictilabrus laticlavius
Many blogs about fish behaviour have been posted to our website over the years. One such recent blog is Recent Fish Behaviour Sightings at Rapid Bay Jetty . Search our…
Recent Fish Behaviour Sightings at Rapid Bay Jetty
This photo of some Magpie perch Pseudogoniistius nigripes is another example of this species tending to hog many of the most prominent Western Cleaner Clingfish Cochleoceps bicolor sponge stations under…
Turtle Sighting at Semaphore & Catfish at West Lakes
Symonne Ellis, our latest Facebook follower, told us that she had “had an interesting couple of days with two observations that (she) thought may be of interest”. Symonne sent us…
Unusual Mating Behaviour by Southern Bobtail Squid
Emily May recently sent us a query regarding some unusual mating behaviour by southern bobtail squid, Euprymna tasmanica, that she had observed during a night dive at Rye Pier, Port…
Fish ‘n’ Rocks
What’s the connection between pairs of fish and ‘rocks’? Answer: Whenever you find female and male fish together, you will always find ‘rocks’! This photo shows a breeding pair of…
The Solway (& the South Australian’s) Anchor
A large, stocked anchor thought to be from the 1837 shipwreck Solway is located by the entrance to the National Trust Museum at 1 Flinders Parade, Victor Harbor. The Solway…
Remarkable Recovery of Depleted Kelp Beds
John Turnbull (Marine Explorer) posted these stills on Flickr a while back: – “Before and After the Floods #marineexplorer (Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwturnbull/51114323714/ ) According to the caption for the two stills,…
“Spotting spotted squibs sure ain’t easy!”
I did a solo dive around the outer end of the new jetty at Rapid Bay in the afternoon. I took this photo which features an unsharp and tiny juvenile…
More on the Wreck of the Duilius
It seems that there have been several spellings/miss-spellings for the name of the ship Duilius wrecked in Guichen Bay in 1853. Here is one such discrepancy, in “Wrecks on the…
The Australian Warships Scuttled as Dive Wrecks 1997-2011
Several Australian warships have been scuttled as dive wrecks since 1997. (The River Class frigate HMAS Derwent was also sunk off Rottnest Island, Western Australia during explosives testing on 21st…