Showing posts with label Blue Groper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blue Groper. Show all posts

Friday, 9 February 2018

Little Bay and Clovelly Jan 2018

So as I mentioned in my last post over Christmas I was lucky enough to get given a new strobe flash for my Nikon. This had lead to many more trips to the beach but I'm still getting the hang of the new gear so you will have to bear with me. Here are two trips I recently did to Little Bay and Clovelly.

Little Bay

A little Roundbelly-Cowfish 
White Ear's were keeping an eye on me.


The water at Little Bay has some of Sydney's best visibility

Found a Mourning CuttleFish hiding in the rocks. 


Featherduster Coral 
Smooth Toadfish




Let me know if anyone lost their bank card.
Clovelly

Sea Hare's gave me the chance to play with the new light





Bluie made an appearance 



Red Morwong 


Common Stingaree




This Mourning Cuttlefish really showing how much he can change his camo

Neon Damsel-Fish

And I had my first run-in with a Nudibranch in Clovelly



Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Clovelly - Octopus and Stingray Day

So I have been little slack in putting up new posts lately, mainly because I have been spending so much time underwater lately. So here is a quick recap of yesterday but I have about 7 different dives I will combine into a few posts in the next few weeks :)

When I first jumped in I was immediately met with a Common Stingaree cruising along in the shallows.









Even though the water was very green I managed to get a few more shots of Sea Hare's.





And found a Rainbow Wrasse, and White Ear hanging out together.



However, the highlight was two Gloomy Octopuses I found close together. At the start, I spotted the little one's eyes between two rocks.







However, once I turned around I found a bigger Gloomy (larger than a basketball) well camouflaged into the rocks.












At the end of watching these two for awhile, I got the chance to see something pretty incredible. With a male Blue Groper cruising over the head of the big Octopus before quickly taking a bite out of the smaller one which let out a big jet of black ink. Although I didn't get great photos as I was too interested in watching, I hope you get the picture.

You can spot him just below.

That black swirl is the ink.