<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" What to do with green tomatoes? We could fry them or roast them. I’ve read they make great chutney or even go with eggs benedict. I might add them to a lentil stew or create a sweet and savory jam with a difference. Or perhaps we’ll just let them ripen into … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" The title of this image might just a seem little strange. What in this image might be lost? There is always a story lurking in any image. Sometimes obvious, other times it’s a case of ‘you had to be there’. Despite the drama of a stormy Henley Beach sky, angry clouds … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Prowling the sandy bottom between the sea-grass beds of Rapid Bay, the carnivorous undulate volute, Amoria undulata is on the hunt for other mollusks. Up close that beautiful spiral shell reminds me of cinnamon scrolls while from a distance a tiny Dyson vacuum cleaner. Volutes were plentiful during our recent night … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Three days in a row with temperatures over 40 degreesC had taken their toll and despite the ominous clouds and the expectant change people flocked to the beaches in droves to escape the saturated heat of the suburbs. When I got down to Henley beach around 8 pm this evening the … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" What a super cute way to herald in a New Year of diving; my first every sighting of a short-head seahorse, Hippocampus breviceps at Rapid Bay. There is no reason why I should not have seen a seahorse under Rapid Bay Jetty in the hundreds of dives I have enjoyed here. … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Last night was my first night dive for 2017. In fact it was my first dive for the new year and the conditions were perfect. The evening star and a waxing crescent moon shone down on the water as we slipped below the surface. To the fishers on Rapid Bay jetty … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" When the sunset plays the game of pretending to be over it pays to stay a while, to look up, to look around and to look behind. Sneaking up from behind, the clouds, now struck with the sun’s golden receding light, have become a new source to colour the world before … Read more