It’s night time and you are cruising down Kelp Street looking for a tasty morsel or two. There are no street lamps on the sandy bottom making the ocean floor extra dark. Here the darkness is your friend keeping you safe from monsters. Or is it? A little confused you create some illumination and … … Read more
There is no such thing as being lucky, Luck is everywhere, you just need to persist at something long enough and what to you may seem lucky was simply inevitable all along. This weekend was our second trip to Edithburgh for the year. The weather was perfect creating the opportunity for a number of dives … Read more
I had spent more than five hours under that sparkling rippled surface that most Edithburgh visitors never get to see beneath. I had searched all around and out beyond the jetty, northward up to to the swimming pool and all over the sea grass beds searching in vain for a leafy seadragon. The diving was … Read more
I used to to take great delight in finding a leafy seadragon for other divers, then watching, waiting and counting how long it took them to separate creature from its environment. Here in the sea grass you would think that they would be easy to spot compared to the yellow or brown algae. Actually I … Read more
It’s been a couple months now since my extraordinary experience in Norway beneath northern lights, swimming with orca and humpback whales and sharing all these incredible experiences with an amazing group of people. I am blessed not only for my own experiences but also for the way that everyone who I shared this amazing adventure … Read more
I’ve Seen Things You People Wouldn’t Believe “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” Rutger Hauer’s haunting words spoken by … Read more
It’s 11:00pm and most of the sleepy seaside town of Edithburgh has retired for the evening. Meanwhile I make some final adjustments to my new manual focus gear and then head down to the jetty. It was only going to be a short dive with a tiny eight litre scuba cylinder. One and a half … Read more
What a lovely way to herald in a new year than to escape to one of my all time favorite places (within a few hours drive) and be reminded why I fell in love with the little seaside town of Edithburgh more than 30 years ago. On this occasion we only stayed two nights but … Read more