Bare Island
Found resting on a rock at the end of the jetty in 6m of water
Aust Darter listed separately, watched the Darter catch at least 12 Redfin in about 10 minutes it was so fast.
Plenty of fish jumping on a turning tide off Titirangi Beach. I’m not up on my fish species, so please have a crack at the ID(s) if you are!
Having a cool fight
Eye detail, this one appears to have suffered an injury.
ID probably impossible but I find the eye of many bottom dwellers to be interesting. Its almost as if there is a blind / shade over the pupil (probably raised at night) so that they can see through it but it hides the stark black pupil.
Gaetano Gargiulo/Guylian Seahorses of the World 2018
Depth barely 1 m @ start of a SACReD shore dive. The fish was found by @waterhelen who with her dive buddy kindly beckoned us over the shallow water of the entry point of this shore dive to ensure that I and my buddy @kevincfishes could see and photograph it.
Two oceanic manta rays, second manta exhibiting leucistic colouration.
female on left, male on right
One of at least ten that were in the adult's mouth.
"The raft of the Hippocampus"
Banded wobbygong eating an Ornate wobbygong
Observation and photographs provided by Jenni Wrysta. Sequence shows the bottlenose dolphin "Star" tossing a fish/eel that she captured in the Port River. Subject of this sighting record is the fish/eel pictured.
On my 3rd day working on this project a I recorded a group of around 20 to 30 juveniles Whiprays resting under a Mangrove tree's shade at high tide.
I spent a couple of hours in the water with them being very still until they seemed to got used to the click on my shutter, some were less shy than others and were happy to be very very close to the camera.
I uploaded a video of the sounds made here:
UPDATE JULY 2022
A paper has now been published based on this observation, Elasmobranchs no longer the silent residents of the sea. We the 1st evidence of not one but TWO species of stingray actively producing sounds doi.org/10.1002/ecy.38
Very small juveniles in rockpools. TL 20mm (est.)
SS Yongala wreck dive
Mackerel Reef (21-466) - Booby Bird live-aboard trip
Sighted under San Remo pier.
Possibly Scorpaenopsis novaeguinea?
Here are some more photos of my first encounter with this species at about 8-10m depth at Binalong Bay,Tasmania.
In ~10cm water along the sandy lagoon shore at low tide. First time I have seen one in this location. Fish was ~10cm long
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