{"id":70,"date":"2007-10-15T23:35:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/70-meow-said-the-shark-encounter-bay-sa.html"},"modified":"2007-10-25T00:06:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T13:36:47","slug":"meow-said-the-shark-encounter-bay-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/70-meow-said-the-shark-encounter-bay-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Meow Said The Shark, Encounter Bay SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:133 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"float: left;border: 0px;padding-left: 5px;padding-right: 5px\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/marine\/P9080824_SharkEncounterBay.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>So why did the shark say meow? Because it was a catshark of course!  I found this Varied Catshark, <em>Parascyllium variolatum<\/em>, while diving Whalebone Caves in Encounter Bay a few weeks ago.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAlthough found in a wide variety of Southern Australian habitats, little is know about this normally nocturnal shark. Fortunately for me this guy was up late. Unfortunately, trying to take the photos through gaps in the kelp made it hard to get a clear shot.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhalebone Caves is another one of my favourite South Australian shore dives. Not very deep and only a stroll from the car park, this dive is like being in an aquarium. With an intricate maze of tunnels, caves and swim-throughs carved from the limestone sea-bed, this little place is fun to explore or just to hang out in at the end of a day&#8217;s diving.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUntil the next post, take care out there, keep diving ( if that&#8217;s what you do! ) &#8230;Robert \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath C5060 1\/60s at f\/3.5 ISO100 Lens UCL165AD Macro, Inon D2000 Strobe","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why did the shark say meow? Because it was a catshark of course! I found this Varied Catshark, Parascyllium variolatum, while diving Whalebone Caves in Encounter Bay a few weeks ago. Although found in a wide variety of Southern Australian habitats, little is know about this normally nocturnal shark. Fortunately for me this guy &#8230; <a title=\"Meow Said The Shark, Encounter Bay SA\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/70-meow-said-the-shark-encounter-bay-sa.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Meow Said The Shark, Encounter Bay SA\">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-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}