I took these photos using my 24-105mm lense, they seem to have come out ok but I really wish I’d had my 100mm macro lense and tripod as these funghi were enchanting. All the photos were taken in a temperate rain forest near Adventure Bay called the Mavista Trail.
Continue ReadingSafety stop Ab ‘n’ Fran snorkeling Elley admiring the Blue Green Chromis amongst the Digitalis coral Fran admiring the Potato Coral field Elley over the Potato Coral field at Sawa i Lau
Continue ReadingSchool of Blue Green Chromis in their digitata coral house Reeftop Pipefish Fiji Anenome fish on the defensive Fiji Anenome fish on the defensive Fiji Anenome fish on the defensive, whats the black fish at bottom right? Possibly a Charcoal Damsel? Fiji Anenome fish on the defensive Spot the little […]
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Of course it poured with rain on our arrival day, leaving us with a gloomy foreboding that we’d be having a wet cruise, however, it turned out it was the last day of a wet perio and we were set to enjoy some magnificent weather. Happy fam after an awesome […]
Continue ReadingOf course it’s pouring with rain, well, there have been regular heavy downpours since we arrived at our one nighter this morning after a three hour flight in the dead of the night from Brisbane.
Continue ReadingKev Fran Fran gave Frev an Advanced Open Water course for Kev’s birthday, way back in February. This required us to do some online theory before completing the practical side of the course over two days. We did this over the weekend on Sat 25th and Sunday 26th April, with […]
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We flew into Lady Elliot Island from Hervey Bay on the morning of Saturday 14 Jan 2023. The weather was sketchy with lots of rain squalls around, some of which we flew through so our view was obscured for large parts of the flight. These rain squalls were caused by […]
Continue ReadingI remember the existential awe I felt the first time I saw the Hubble Deep Field image. It’s an image of a seemingly empty patch of sky exposed for about 12 days by the HST. It blew my mind because it shows a multitude of different galaxies gazillions of light […]
Continue ReadingSo after an intense three day Bronze course, followed by a challenging assessment in difficult conditions, Elley successfully completed her bronze at Mooloolaba Surf Club today. She was one of 5 teenagers doing it, but the only one who didn’t already have her SRC. She aced it! As I said […]
Continue ReadingSeries of photos taken at Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge), Kakadu (Coinda) and Uirr, with Canon Eos 70d and mostly a Sigma 150-600mm lense
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