I love that misty look of a kelp forest submerged in murky water. It can be scary … you don’t know what hides a couple of meters away from you … but it offers a taste of mystery. You cannot see from the distance so you don’t know. You must get close to find out. […]

Shallow water kelp forests around Goat Island near Leigh are a source of unending fascination. Keywords: kelp forest “kelp forest” sea weed weeds “sea weed” “sea weeds” underwater undersea brown algae shallow “shallow water” vegetation surface reflection pacific ocean temperate

When underwater, being able to breathe is essential. If you can breathe you have time to calm down, to think, to make a decision. If you cannot breathe you don’t have that time. Bubbles leaving the diver’s regulator symbolize the incoming and outgoing flow of air that preserves your live underwater. Whether vintage or not, […]

Another fish that is much more than a dish (see Snapper Fish, More Than a Dish). They are so friendly. I remember one making my wife Ivana cuddle it … it squashed itself between her forearm and the bottom. We could not resist laughter to the point water filled our masks. Another one tried to […]

Gem nudibranches (Gem doris, Dendrodoris gemmacea, D. denisoni) look like real living gems. Yet they don’t live in warm clear tropical seas, they are happy with temperate, quite often murky waters. If you live in Auckland, you don’t have to travel far away. Actually you don’t have to travel at all. I usually observe and […]