<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" As the sun sets with certainly, as another day passes on, as clarity is lost and memory fades, holding onto the rail will not save you. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Holding On To The Rail’ 1/100 f/4.0 ISO160 182mm
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Beachside Glenelg and most people are looking at the gorgeous sunset, snapping away at the horizon or at themselves as it the current trend. I looked up and saw a different ocean. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Surfing a Celestial Wave’ 1/2500 f/2.8 ISO160 102mm
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This little guy the size of my thumbnail was happy to cruise around hunting for food on the reef quite unnoticed as I sat patiently waiting for the perfect angle on some other less interesting creature. While peering through the viewfinder this lump of moon rock literally slid into the frame. … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I first encountered hermit crabs many years ago on the muddy tidal flats around Darwin well before I began diving. Since then I’ve learned they are everywhere and more than happy to take residence in someone else’s abandoned home. This Hermit Crab (Paguristes frontalisi) at Port Noarlunga is both common and … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I’ve said before that Port Noarlunga is underrated as an amazing diving location and last night’s dive proved again the beauty here. We got in the water around 11pm but with the 40 degC hot days we have been having it was just like jumping into a warm bath. Feeling pretty … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Biscuit Stars (Tosia australis) abound under Edithburgh Jetty. They are so common and so generally stationary they are often overlooked by divers for the intricate beauty in their last (note the term ‘last’ is used to describe the hard structure making up the shape of the starfish). This pair side by … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I normally associate a name like ‘The Pit’ with some lair filled with foul beasts but this place could not be further from that idea. This special location only a short swim from the Edithburgh Jetty never fails to enthrall me with its beautiful white sandy bottom rimmed inside a low … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I love firsts! I especially love finding a critter for the first time under Edithburgh Jetty where I have dived hundreds of times over many years. Actually the credit goes to my dive buddy Raymond for finding this rarely seen Southern Crested Weedfish Christiceps australis From any other angle it looked … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" As I have said before, one of the most amazing sea creatures to inhabit our coastal waters is the Australian giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama. Aside from being the world’s largest cuttlefish species, it is also one of the most curious and engaging and will interact for ages if you want to … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Another image maker captures the twilight in their own vision. Whenever I see another photographer on the beach looking at the same sunset as myself, aiming their camera and capturing the scene I wonder how their vision differs from mine. I wonder if they see anything I do not and I … Read more