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A resident Six-banded Angelfish you can reliably find at the SS Yongala on the starboard side, midships in 15-20m. They usually come in pairs.
I find these notoriously difficult to light and compose, mainly because of their dark faces and if they weren’t so pretty I’m sure I would have given up much earlier.
Here [...]

Enough freshwater, here’s the first shot from the actual coral sea :) This was taken at Palm Island, about an hour by boat north-east of Townsville.
Very unusual to find the feather star attached like this in blue water, so great photo opportunity and I also got extremely lucky with the soft coral fans behind [...]

A green turtle as found off the bow of the SS Yongala. The Yongala has a resident population of several green and hawksbill sea turtles, which is of course convenient for the budding photographer. Learnings for me include that this species has absolute right of way in the ocean and is not afraid to [...]

If you ever have a chance to go to Townsville, Queensland, don’t miss the chance to dive the wreck of the SS Yongala (if you have an interest in shipwrecks, I also recommend a follow up visit to the Townsville Maritime Museum). It is ranked amongst the top dives in the world and for good [...]

When editing all my recent shots from the Barrier Reef in January, I had one left over that I liked and never got to finish. It was taken on a dive at the Cod Hole at Ribbon Reef #10. We were in about 10m of water at the beginning of the dive when this unidentified [...]

What a fantastic pattern! Animals like these remind me of what I imagined colorful tropical fish and coral reefs to be like as a kid. I’m fairly confident on the fish id on this one, counting 4 lateral blue lines and a dusky pattern on the belly, so according to Randall et al., it’s a Blue-stripe Snapper [...]

Sometimes fish identification can be hard. I now own two different books on the subject and consult fishbase online, but it can still be difficult to even narrow. In this case, I can see one gill slit, big eyes and a yellow dorsal fin (cut off). I originally thought it’s a soldierfish but had to [...]

This species actually took me a while to identify and white still not 100% sure, I think it’s a female Scalefin Anthias , which according to the Australian Museum, range from orange to yellow and are different in physical appearance to the males. The dorsal fin has relatively coarse scaling though it’s not visible on [...]

This is one of the most unusual photos I took during our new year’s trip to the Coral Sea and I’m glad it turned out sharp.
What you are looking at is the leathery skin of an Ananas Sea Cucumber . These are abundant in the Coral Sea and we’ve seen them on pretty much every [...]

The Cod Hole was the single best photo dive I have done this year, hands down. Ok, given there are a few days left in 2009 to improve on this, but it had everything big and small you could wish for, including Potato Cod , Bass , Anthias , Gorgonians, Seahorses , Surgeonfish , Unicornfish [...]

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