{"id":1480,"date":"2016-01-30T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T04:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1480-denizen-of-the-deep.html"},"modified":"2016-01-30T15:53:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T05:23:52","slug":"denizen-of-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1480-denizen-of-the-deep.html","title":{"rendered":"Denizen of the Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2059 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1309-_MG_8039.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI had never dived Nelson Bay before last weekend and as we geared up in the dark at Fly Point for the high tide dive I was acutely aware that I really should dive here in the daylight first.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe moment we submerged though I caught sight of my first nudibranch for the dive, then another and another. In a short span of time I had seen more nudibranchs and a greater variety of nudibranch species than in all of my many years of diving.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI encountered this denizen of the (not so) deep, <em>Dendrodoris denisoni<\/em>, about 60 minutes into one of the most amazing night dives I have experienced. I could not have asked for a better pose as the nudibranch perched itself atop a piece of structure with its antler-like rhinophores fully extended and rear branchial plume waving in the current.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe remainder of the dive at Fly Point was filled with more nudibranchs, wobbygong sharks, octopuses, gobbleguts and a myriad of fishes.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAfter this very first dive at Nelson Bay I knew I was in nudibranch heaven!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Denizen of the Deep&#8217;, 1\/100s f\/22 ISO400 100mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had never dived Nelson Bay before last weekend and as we geared up in the dark at Fly Point for the high tide dive I was acutely aware that I really should dive here in the daylight first. The moment we submerged though I caught sight of my first nudibranch for the dive, then &#8230; <a title=\"Denizen of the Deep\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1480-denizen-of-the-deep.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Denizen of the Deep\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}