Robert's Ramblings

The ocean calls and calls and calls.

It fills our dreams,
it nurtures our souls,
it pushes busy elsewhere,
it draws the world of nature close.

Where ever we go or choose to live the ocean will never be far away.

… always calling.

#Goldenhour #sunset #ocean #silhouette #seascape #halletcove #southaustralia #aerial #drone #coastal

Sunday’s dive on Seacliff Reef had some of the best visibility I have seen here in our local waters for months. There was almost no need for the sounder as the bottom was perfectly clear 12 meters down beneath the boat.

I wished I’d brought a wide angle setup for this dive as the underwater landscape across the reef was just wonderful with schooling old wives, leatherjackets, dusky morwongs and silver drummer, to name just a few of the usual suspects.

Here atop a sea sponge outcrop, a community of blue throat ascidians (Clavelina australis) with mouths agape relish in the clean cold waters of the incoming tide.

They almost look like they are singing.

#Bluethroatascidians #Clavelinaaustralis #ascidian #critters #macro #seacliff #reef #scuba #diving #southaustralia #sessile #benthic #marinelife