65 ‘ticked’ Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
5 people did an early lap to Shelly and back and a couple travelled north for an early Bolderdash 🙂
I have to say it wasn’t one of the nicest of swims… it was still lovely of course, just maybe not the best of the best.
There was a little swell, a bit of a rip and lots of plankton and debris floating around.
Check out this morning’s awesome red ball sunrise, beautifull captured on camera by James Goins.
Stephen Coulter Almanac has informed James that on Friday the sun will rise before 6am. So James will soon have to start leaving home earlier to repeat this photo… Maybe he will capture it from Freshie on his way down to swimming instead 😉
They are Roberto’s feet at bottom left, NOT the fin of a tiger shark up at Queenscliff… 😉
Anna Alvsdotter collected a whole pile of intriguing rubbish from the ocean by swimming back with it up her wetsuit leg… check out the photo below… yep, that really is a whole packet of chicken that came from the ocean !!!
Check out Gaetan’s amazing fish photos below from his snorkel yesterday… We have never seen two of these fish here before. Jane do you know what they are please ???
Tim’s fact of the day: “When a crab loses a claw, another one grows in its place.”
Water Temperature 20.0 degrees.
Air Temperature 19 degrees.
Sunrise 6.04am.
Sunset 7.15pm.
High Tide: 6.37am.
Low Tide: 12.43pm
16 comments
Tacomajim
October 24, 2011 at 9:39 am
Excellent photos, Gaetan!
Had a feeling you’d be heading out now that our Duskies have returned!
isobel@executivevoice.com.au
October 24, 2011 at 10:08 am
hello my darling b&b’s – thank you for the wonderful bathday messages yeseterday and all the cake and cake and omg there’s cake – and laughs and kissesses and wishes.
I love yous orl.
xxxxx
Gaetan
October 24, 2011 at 10:38 am
ahaha indeed James plus the weather was so nice. I stayed in there 2 hours but did not see any shark at all actually. There were thousands and thousands of inoffensive jellyfish, very impressive.
Video:
http://vimeo.com/30996188
Anna Alvsdotter
October 24, 2011 at 10:59 am
Wow Gaetan, very impressive footage of the beautiful marine life.
John
October 24, 2011 at 11:33 am
Great photos and video Gaetan.
Michael [EX CI]
October 24, 2011 at 11:58 am
Gaetan, what an excellent video. I always enjoy your shots they are really well done.
Shame about the RWC, better luck next time.
Michael [EX CI]
October 24, 2011 at 12:01 pm
No worries Izzy. I didn’t realize it was bath day yesterday!! I must make a note of that, Sunday wasn’t it???
Tacomajim
October 24, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Super video, Gaetan. You hold that cam so still. Amazing howe the flatheads blend in so well with the bottom.
Pacific Jules
October 24, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Sensational video Gaetan, thanks so much for sharing it 🙂
charlie
October 24, 2011 at 3:58 pm
I saw the little yellow circled blue one the other day. Any idea of what that is?
Jane
October 24, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Re Gaetan’s pics, I sent him this email:
Hi Gaetan – Your pics just keep getting better and better!
1. I love these – isn’t it spectacular in shape, markings and colours? It is Cheilodactylus vestitus, variously known as the crested morwong or Eastern magpie morwong.
2. Had to look this one up – another spectacular fish! I’d say it was a boxfish, a female Eastern smooth boxfish,
Anoplocapros inermis, but yours is much more beautifully coloured than the pics in my books, with its lime-green spots. My books all show the spots as brown, but apparently they get yellower with age, so yours is a nice mature one. The males are beautiful too, no spots, but lovely bright golden and blue. I have seen a tiny juvenile (about 2 cm), and it was brilliant orange with brownish spots.
3. Six-spine leatherjacket, Meuschenia freycineti. Gorgeous, great photo, you can even count the spines on its peduncle (the “stalk” of the tail), and it shows those ripple-effect markings on its front half so beautifully.
I’m not sure when Mark comes back, but I’ll find out and let you know, because I think he would love to see these, especially no. 2.
Anna Alvsdotter
October 24, 2011 at 4:37 pm
What a wealth of knowledge you are, Jane!
Julie, please can we have these pics with Jane’s info on the Marine life wall of fame?
Jane
October 24, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Re above post, for those who don’t know, Mark (McGrouther) is the head of the Fish Collection at the OzMus. He has already used Gaetan’s photos on the Museum website, and Gaetan’s name is on the Oz Museum’s list of official Museum photographers. So we can bask in his reflected glory!
Check out http://australianmuseum.net.au/image/Diamondfish-Monodactylus-argenteus for one of his great photos.
Pacific Jules
October 24, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Done 🙂 I hope I have the correct names with the correct photos…
Check them out here:
http://www.pacificjules.com.au/wall-of-fish.html
Anna Alvsdotter
October 24, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Here come the whales 🙂
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/whale-watch/hello-sydney-here-come-the-whales-20111024-1mfzn.html
Mr Whale
October 24, 2011 at 10:43 pm
They are a bit late aren’t they? 🙂