Another Great Bit of Camouflage

There are few fish with better camouflage than the Scorpaenidae.  Slow-moving, bottom-dwelling ambush predators, these fish are masters of disappearing into their surroundings. After publishing my last post, I decided to dig out some pictures of Scorpionfish from the...

A Great Bit of Camouflage

Just about my favourite thing (after photographing sharks) is bimbling* around a reef with a macro lens mounted to my camera, looking for small critters.  Non-divers are often surprised to learn just how hard it is to find some of the smaller...

Life in Crinoids

There’s a lot of talk at the moment about living in bubbles; be they on social media or in terms of social isolation and avoiding a particular pestilence that is making a nuisance of itself, to say the...

Hunting the Longnose Hawkfish

So far this year I have racked up a total of zero hours underwater.  Obviously, in the grand scheme of things it isn’t really significant, nor that important, given the crises many folk are having to...

Why is a Green Turtle Green?

For a few few years I never asked myself this question.  Whenever I saw a turtle, if it seemed to have a greenish tint to its carapace I was happy to think of it as a Green and not let it bother me...