7 Oct 2024 Frev were unable to dive the ex-HMAS Brisbane yesterday due to the boat being out of service, so we went for the next best thing which was a Nudibranch dive today in the Mooloolah River. We picked up tanks from ScubaWorld first thing in the morning and […]
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Frev decided to hire tanks from Sunreef and go and try a Nudibranch dive at La Balsa Park near the mouth of the Mooloolah River in the harbour. High tide was 1.4m at 12.24pm so the timing was excellent. We saw a few Nudis, the highlights being the images below. […]
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I had an unsettling encounter with a White Tip Reef shark while Ocean Swimming in the lagoon at Matuku Island recently on our Fiji trip. We had been dropped off in deep water by the zodiacs for our swim, I knew there was shallow reef very nearby so I swam […]
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22 July 2023 So Frev are getting to the point where they need to go diving every so often, just to feed the addiction. They were so cold on their previous dive on the Brissie, so had purchased hoodies afterwards, so this was the test to see if they worked, […]
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We visited Chalkies Beach on our first full day, on a catamaran which also took us to Whitehaven Beach. Plum Pudding Island is a small island between the northern ends of Hamilton and Dent Islands with a small and vibrant reef surrounding it. A highlight here was the beautiful Phyllidiid […]
Continue ReadingAs I wrote briefly about in my Bruny Island entry, we observed fossils on our last day of walking on the Cape Queen Elizabeth track. Having looked into this more closely, I believe these are paleodictyon fossils. See the wikipedia entry here, and the pbs youtube video about them here. […]
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Frev were joined by close friends for a walking trip with Parktreks to Bruny Island, a trip that always seemed to be in the distant future, but now was suddenly upon us. The four of us travelled to Brisbane Airport together from the Sunshine Coast to catch our earlyish flight […]
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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 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 […]
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