Robert's Ramblings

This male Eastern Gobbleguts (Vincentia novaehollandiae) might look like the perfect husband. He will take full responsibility for his future newborns from the moment the female lays her large egg mass.

He will protect them from predators, he will regularly roll them about to keep them fresh and aerated and he will have you believe that for the entire incubation period he will abstain from eating.

The truth is that every now and then the gobbleguts does swallow and he may not be so hungry after all when it comes time for the babies to hatch.


Photo: Robert Rath, 'Don't Swallow', 1/100s f/22 ISO400 100mm

For many people this may very well be outer space being so removed the comfort of the breathable world.

It's not even the lovely crystal clear underwater landscape of a Cousteau Documentary with only a few meters of visibility.

The place is however a very real and very terrestrial Broughton Island and the pace is anything but deadly as this big and beautiful female Grey Nurse shark cruises every so gently by.


Photo: Robert Rath, 'It Came from Outer Space', 1/160s f/14 ISO400 15mm