<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" A pale blue sky, whimsical clouds, a grey horizon and flat water and a long white jetty out to sea made for perfect diving at Port Hughes. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Nice Day for A White Jetty’ 1/100s f/11 ISO100 17mm
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" As the sun rose behind me a great shadow raced down from the distant ridge-top of the Elder Range. It was breathtaking the speed it moved but that was nothing to compared to the way it raced away from the base towards me across the eucalyptus and native pine scrub below. … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" There is so much controversy, misdirection and plain old fallacy about the ill affects of wind generated power. Some people complain of sleepless nights, nausea, headaches and a loss of general well-being if a power generating turbine is part of their visual landscape. Funny how those people with turbines on their … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Up here in the Flinders Ranges the winter night sky is so dark that even a moonlit landscape can’t wash away the spectacle of the Milky Way Galaxy. Even the distant galaxies LMC and SMC can clearly be seen just above the ridge-top to the left of the scene as fuzzy … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" It’s nice being able to share an experience of being somewhere wild and out of the way. That is why good landscape images are so compelling. It’s also fun to share the actual experience of being there with friends. This image is proof that Gavin actually did make it to the … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" These little critters are Blue Throat Ascidians (Clavelina australis) and live in compound clusters. They look like a nest of little chicks of some bizarre bird with mouths agape chirping for food. Actually just like birds these critters are chordates and though they don’t really have a backbone they do have … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Biscuit Stars, Tosia australis, come in all sorts of colour variations. This beautiful purple star under Rapid Bay Jetty reminded me of a gingerbread man with its striking orange internal markings. Sea stars are not perhaps the most exciting of undersea critters and are often overlooked by divers who miss out … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Nestled inside a pocket of alien pink landscape is a Castelnau’s Goby, Nesogobius pulchellus Like all gobies this one is cute, curious and you can almost imagine it wanting to startup a conversation. Make a sudden move though and in the blink of an eye there will only be an empty … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" This feathery looking thing is actually a worm. It’s a Southern fan worm Sabellastarte australiensis Sometimes they are even called Feather Duster Worms and just like its cleaner namesake those appendages sweep the water clean hoping to find nutrition in the suspended particles floating by. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Feather Duster’ 1/200s … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The conditions today at Rapid Bay were sensational with 15m visibility. I so wished I had set up for wide angle but today’s dive was a macro gear shakedown. Immediately on our decent we came across this beautiful Swimming anemone, Phlyctenactis tuberculosa. The fact that this macro image make it look … Read more