Shelly Beach
UDATED UPDATE: I'm listening to a "Learn Swedish" CD, and one of the practice dialogue scenarios is "You've just won 5 million kronor in the lottery, and you are trying to figure out how to spend it". Really training us on the essentials!
UPDATE: Proving once again that to make great art in this modern era you don't need skill, only broken equipment, here's a photo from the night dive when my camera was malfunctioning. I think it turned out pretty funky! Looks like a winamp visualization or something.
Had a lovely night-dive at Shelly Beach last night. Photos are available here (the first half are by me, the second half by another keen u/w photographer, Jason)
Here's one, up close and personal with a Wobbegong Shark:
He was the cause of another of those hair-raising moments when you're swimming along, doobie-do-doobie-doobie, then realise you're a foot away from a wobbie and you just came very close to kicking him in the head.
For the uneducated: Wobbies are very well camouflaged and they usually lie on the ground doing bugger-all, but if they get angry, they can bite down hard and they don't let go, like a pit-bull terrier. They ain't small either.
See here
(Luckily enough, it seems that three D-180 strobes repeatedly pounding his retinae didn't make him angry)
UPDATE: Proving once again that to make great art in this modern era you don't need skill, only broken equipment, here's a photo from the night dive when my camera was malfunctioning. I think it turned out pretty funky! Looks like a winamp visualization or something.
Had a lovely night-dive at Shelly Beach last night. Photos are available here (the first half are by me, the second half by another keen u/w photographer, Jason)
Here's one, up close and personal with a Wobbegong Shark:
He was the cause of another of those hair-raising moments when you're swimming along, doobie-do-doobie-doobie, then realise you're a foot away from a wobbie and you just came very close to kicking him in the head.
For the uneducated: Wobbies are very well camouflaged and they usually lie on the ground doing bugger-all, but if they get angry, they can bite down hard and they don't let go, like a pit-bull terrier. They ain't small either.
See here
(Luckily enough, it seems that three D-180 strobes repeatedly pounding his retinae didn't make him angry)
posted by I-Rock at 4:26 AM
8 Comments:
Man - that shark is pretty rude looking!! It looks like it would just ugly you to death.
Corr..... It looks like GHOSTS. You should send it somewhere wacky as evidence. That is what it is - EVIDENCE.
Ghosts of divers killed by wobbies, no doubt.
Rad photos, my hominid! That wobby looks like the dragon from the neverending story, or am I thinking about that animated story that was out a few years ago. Anyway, it looks like that thing.
It definately looks like a thing. I wouldnt get too close if i was you Ian, he has that 'You killed my father!!!' look in his eyes. Good photo though. I just think you were lucky to get out alive!
Has anyone seen the cartoon about the psychotic seal?
It was you! It was YOU!!!
(the massacres everybody at end of each cartoon)
love it!
this is relevant because I say it is.
Sure you didn't dream it?
Well, Ian, if I DID, and this is a long shot, I am sure that it would have represented my fundamental frustration with capitalism and enduring fondness for fluffy white things.
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