Category Archives: Swimming with the fish

This morning, as the girls were enjoying a bit of a Saturday morning lie, in I decided to wander down to beach for a snorkel. It was a bit cloudy so the light wasn’t that great but the beach was its usual (not) busy self and the sea was beautifully calm: As I swam outContinue reading “More underwater wonders”

I’ve been seeing so many shoals of baby fish and wondering what they are. The image doesn’t do the scene I saw justice, but at times there are hundreds if not thousands: Then in recent times they started to become a bit more distinguishable, as they were getting bigger: Finally on the weekend I cameContinue reading “The babies are growing up”

You are getting this as I know you’ll appreciate even more underwater images of some creatures I’ve been lucky enough to watch on my last two days of snorkels at our local Peppy Beach. I’ll start with this fish called a White Ear, and is in fact a teenager. I can tell this as theContinue reading “Underwater world”

Last night Elseya’s mate from next door had a sleepover, and subsequently they were up till tale making movies and playing games. Lisa and I crashed by 10pm and left them to it. In the at 6am the green waste truck came by, I swear we could set out clocks by that truck. So byContinue reading “More snorkelling images”

On Elseya’s second day of the dance workshop we had already decided to head out for a snorkel somewhere. We aimed to head back to Castle Rock where we had gone a week or so before but didn’t manage much time in the water due to the shark alert. Our local Peppy Beach was flatContinue reading “A swim with the fish”

While summer is on its way the thermometer still hasn’t gone much above 25 but the still calm days are here, so it we went for a play on the beach this afternoon: We picked up Chloe from next door and their dog Cruiso, and off we went: In case you were wondering what ElseyaContinue reading “An afternoon on the beach”

In the last few weeks I have been getting out for a snorkel, and over the last couple of days have been down at our local beach. My memory of the place was that there wasn’t that much to find but in two days and three snorkels I have changed my mind big time. TheContinue reading “Our local beach”