I grew up to the music of ‘The Police’ and later loved Sting’s solo work. In all the intervening years I’d never seen a live performance of either. This week I was stung at last and finally got to see Gordon Sumner, AKA ‘Sting’, live here in the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Wow! Despite being 70 … Read more
Recently I took a little detour on my way home from the ‘day job’. There are a few places I like to go at Outer Harbor giving access to some beautiful seascapes and at times breathtaking bird life. On this moody evening the wildlife had made itself scarce, probably moving east to the protection of … Read more
Fiery sheets of rain fall in the western horizon but none of it reaches the water below while the ocean is calm even as storm clouds loom overhead. I loved the incongruity of this scene tonight as people played and swam in the warm shallows while small boats lingered out at sea. What a beautiful … Read more
Eleven years ago today I originally shared this image, titled ‘The End of Time’. Back then I did not write or share the story behind the image. I could not. Today I will tell its story. Growing up this was our family clock which stood proud on the kitchen mantelpiece, struck its gong once on … Read more
There was something lovely about today. The people I work and play with seemed happier and the day had a beautiful lightness about it. Add to that a gorgeous balmy evening with my girl and nothing could have been lovelier. #Red #rose #abstract #love #beauty
Watch a Common Gurnard Perch (Neosebastes scorpaenoides) for a while and at some stage it will sneeze a shower of debris. Watch it even longer and you just might see some poor critter vanish in a cloud of debris. The source of the sneeze now obvious. Gesundheit! #CommonGurnardPerch #Neosebastesscorpaenoides #gurnard #perch #fish #thebarge #night #scuba … Read more
This Mosaic Leatherjacket, (Eubalichthys mosaicus) on my ‘Barge’ night dive was another unwitting sleep swimming subject as torches and strobes brought light to the darkness. The strange thing about lighting up the night time sea floor it that is seems to have minimal impact on the nocturnal state of its inhabitants. Daytime fishes keep on … Read more
Nestled in a clump of rocky reef at 20m this Brownspotted Wrasse (Notolabrus parilus) is doing what all good wrasse do at eleven o’clock, sleeping. Sleeping fish are an amusing part of night diving. They do not lay there with eyes closed but seem to be in some vacant trace staring out into the ocean. … Read more
If you have a taste in music that extends even a little beyond mainstream popular music and you have never heard of Jacob Collier then I suggest you explore his work and see where it takes you. If you are a multi-instrumentalist with a passion for musical theory I might just continue this conversation to … Read more
Every body seems to make a fuss when ever we experience a ‘Super Moon’, that full moon in which the perigee of its elliptic orbit brings it closest to the Earth and hence larger in the sky. Nobody pays any attention when the moon is at its apogee, when it’s 15% smaller, colder, lonely and … Read more