{"id":2379,"date":"2026-02-10T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2379-wall-of-scad.html"},"modified":"2026-02-10T03:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:13:00","slug":"wall-of-scad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2379-wall-of-scad.html","title":{"rendered":"Wall of Scad"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:3048 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/168-_DMF2063-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nUnderneath Port Hughes jetty there is a school of yellowtail scad, the scale of which rivals any location in South Australia I&#8217;ve ever dived. I distinctly remember my very first dive here many years ago and how it took my breath away.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is one of those locations full of amazing tiny creatures which draw you into the world of macro photography. It also has the large vistas of soft coral-covered pylons and those amazing schools of yellowtail scad cruising through them, demanding wide angles.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe first time I dived here I was focused on the macro and the little things and spent much of the dive ignoring the nudibranchs and following the scad, wishing I had a wide angle lens instead. Most dives since I&#8217;ve gone for wide angle.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCapturing good images of highly reflective fish is really challenging. It&#8217;s like trying to photograph the dust on an old mirror in the dark. Too much strobe light and all you get is a blast of light right back at you with no detail. Too little strobe light and the details disappear into blue-green monochrome.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerhaps I should make my next dive here a macro dive and explore all the amazing tiny creatures that live here, but I just know that FOMO will get the better of me and that wall of yellowtail scad will just tease me for the entire dive.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#YellowtailScad #scad #yellowtail #yakka #TrachurusNovaezelandiae #scuba #diving #PortHughes #SouthAustralia #underwater<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underneath Port Hughes jetty there is a school of yellowtail scad, the scale of which rivals any location in South Australia I&#8217;ve ever dived. I distinctly remember my very first dive here many years ago and how it took my breath away. This is one of those locations full of amazing tiny creatures which draw &#8230; <a title=\"Wall of Scad\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2379-wall-of-scad.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wall of Scad\">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-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","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=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}