My Lack of Cave Diving Experience
As I reported in my (forthcoming) April 2023 column “Southern Waters” in Dive Log magazine, I don’t have any cave diving experience myself, other than snorkelling in Piccaninnie Ponds and…
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As I reported in my (forthcoming) April 2023 column “Southern Waters” in Dive Log magazine, I don’t have any cave diving experience myself, other than snorkelling in Piccaninnie Ponds and…
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…
I have now seen a large (Cerianthid?) tube anemone at Second Valley three times in 8 years. As I explained in my Facebook post at https://scontent.fadl4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/327280926_775335964105281_4473479003342201618_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=l0XrzlhZeNwAX-gaXpK&_nc_ht=scontent.fadl4-1.fna&oh=00_AfA9XxDPaM0uUykkaJDKvx_IWS-vKzXif5qIC94bEwr3wQ&oe=63D91959 , “I caught up…
(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…
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…
Society member Chris Iwanicki found this ‘fishing photo’ of a Harlequin Fish recently: – He brought it to our attention, saying “This picture reminded me again of the fact that…
I wrote about Jessie Hussey in the articles titled Jessie Hussey’s contribution to the knowledge of SA’s marine flora and Mike Moore’s “butterfly of the month”, followed by Lisa Waters…