I’m slowly working through some recent images from the Red Sea and hopefully you’re enjoying seeing them. Here is a selection of butterflyfish. The first on my list is the Masked or Blue cheek Butterfly. Chaetodon semilarvatus is perhaps the quintessential Red Sea Butterflyfish. [...]
Seagrass has always fascinated me and on a recent dive I found some very interesting creatures you might like to see. Adult Green Turtles are vegetarian, and if this female was anything to go by, they can eat a lot of vegetable matter. I met this fine old lady at a dive site not far from Marsa [...]
I’ve just written a post about sharks in the Red Sea, but if they’re not your thing, then perhaps you’ll enjoy these shadier images. Offshore reefs in the Red Sea are some of the richest coral habitats in the world, with very brightly lit reef flats only a few meters away from shaded [...]
Having just returned from a scuba diving trip, I thought I’d continue to share some images, and in this case, some video. Normally I’d be sharing images of coral reefs and the creatures that live on and amidst the coral, but this time I thought I’d offer some video of one of the most amazing [...]
Nearly every dive resort I’ve been to has their own ‘Nemo City’. It seems that the antics of a small cartoon fish are still very popular. While folks in the know might grumble and mutter about the correct naming of Amphiprions, the everyday diver seems not to care one jot, [...]
I’ve spent my diving career thinking that the Red Sea-endemic butterflyfish, Chaetodon austriacus, is just about the most attractive of an amazing genus. I finally managed to take shots of a few juvenile specimens. But first let’s have a look at the adult. The Exquisite [...]
I just got back from a diving and photography trip to the Red Sea, and as usual I’ll be sharing some of my images of the amazing reef life I encountered, and tried to photograph as best I can. My first batch is of a selection of tridacnids, which I always like looking at. As ever, these are [...]
There are plenty of examples of nature coming up with better inventions than us humans. From the feat of seemingly gravity-defying geckos to powerful chemicals in the venom of cone shells, researchers have discovered new ways to turn nature’s inventions into useful human ones. According to a [...]