Blue cod Parapercis colias is usually a friendly and inquisitive fish. Sometimes it’s even more. This one was following me for a significant part of the dive though I didn’t know about it. Accidentally I turned back and the glass port of my camera housing almost touched the fish. I pressed the shutter and this […]
View from under Ti Point Wharf at school of fish in the current at outgoing tide. The visibility was poor but the view was amazing. The school was not moving but swimming against the tidal flow just enough to keep the position. Then they got scared by the noise of my exhalations, turned around and […]
Prickly eleven-armed sea star Coscinasterias calamaria on a pillar of Ti Point Wharf near Leigh, New Zealand. Keywords: sea star “sea star” starfish Echinoderm prickly eleven arm arms eleven-armed Coscinasterias calamaria “Coscinasterias calamaria” bottom exposed underwater undersea shallow temperate water Pacific ocean “Ti Point” wharf Whangateau harbour harbor New Zealand nz Leigh