Photo Archive: October, 2008

Moray Eel Close-up

Blogged by Simon on October 05, 2008 1:01pm | Last updated by Simon on April 19, 2010 11:05am | Category: Underwater Photography |

Moray Eel Close-up

The Moray Eel  is another shot from the October South West Rocks trip. This time we couldn’t dive our original destination Green Island due to bad surface current, and had to evade to the sand bank off the beach to a site called Bait Reef instead, which was only about 10m deep but had crystal [...]

Gorgonian Fan in Fish Rock Cave

Blogged by Simon on October 05, 2008 11:23am | Last updated by Simon on April 19, 2010 11:02am | Category: Underwater Photography |

Gorgonian Fan in Fish Rock Cave

Fish Rock Cave has a great gorgonian fan  right at the exit. If you are about the leave the cave, you can find it about 5m before the blue water on the left hand side.
For this shot, I used the D300 with a 105mm macro lens and had to get pretty close up until about 50cm. [...]

School of Yellowtail Scad

Blogged by Simon on October 05, 2008 12:35am | Last updated by Simon on August 14, 2010 5:52am | Category: Underwater Photography |

School of Yellowtail Scad

This picture of a large school of Yellowtail Scad was taken on our recent weekend trip to South West Rocks, famous for Fish Rock Cave, an underwater cavern that is very popular due to it’s reasonably shallow depth and accessible nature.
It is a 5-6 hour drive from Sydney up the north coast so if [...]