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Sunday, July 31st Shark Bites on Rodney Fox picture
 Here's Rodney Fox a couple of days after surgeons removed hundreds of stritches from his chest and hand wounds. This picture was taken when he visited the skindiving convention on Kangaroo Island. I was staying in Ben Cropp's tent with Van Laman and Barry O'Brien when Rodney Fox called by to visit. JH on 31.07.05 @ 07:34 AM AEST [link] Saturday, July 30th BLACK MARLIN FIGHTS BACK
 A free swimming black marlin is one thing, but a marlin fighting a hook and line is another. This picture is from movie film taken at 64 frames per second. Peter Bristow was the skipper aboard Avalon who I was working with off Cairns. The finished film was very successful and has been described elsewhere in this log. View the video footage sent to Peter from "Bob" who was there when the latest accident occured. (The estimated weight of the fish is more like 350 pounds). Here are the still pictures that we have of the 600 pound Black Marlin that Stephen caught on Thursday, July 7th. What you don't see is what happened during the fight, which we have on video tape of this marlin attacking the boat and striking Stephen in the head causing four fractures to his left cheek and the force split the back of his throat open. We were 30 miles offshore when this happened and it took over 2 hours to get back in. Tropic Star had a plane standing by to take us to Panama City to hospital. He was in a lot of pain, bleeding quite a bit but we got him there as fast as we could and into x-rays. http://www.sportfishingmag.com/video.jsp?format=242&link=WorldPub_SF_2005_blk_marlin_attack JH on 30.07.05 @ 10:46 AM AEST [link] Friday, July 29th SHARK EGGS
 Wally Gibbins recovered these Port Jackson eggs during a scuba dive at Coffs Harbour. JH on 29.07.05 @ 09:22 AM AEST [link] Thursday, July 28th OSPREY REEF ........Northern Coral Sea
 Coralita pioneered all the distant coral reefs and established dive sites. This amazing drop-off in very clear water was near North Horn at Osprey Reef. Live coral decending from the shallows into depths you do not want to explore. People have vanished forever down there. Water depth below is measured in the thousands of feet. Two divers are in this picture, an indication of that fabulous crystal-clear water that is possible when you get away from the coast and the rivers. JH on 28.07.05 @ 12:53 PM AEST [link] CORALITA ......at The Cod Hole
 Twin Screw Motor Vessel T.S.M.V. Coralita (left) at the famous dive location north from Cairns. JH on 28.07.05 @ 12:41 PM AEST [link] CORALITA The Legend was Lost in 30 seconds
 The explosion occured in the engine room at night. The water-tight engine room doors were shut, which intensified the blast from a gas explosion. No one was aboard. Coralita had just been re-fitted for new dive charters in New Guinea and was due to depart within days. The wheelhouse, dining room and galley area was destroyed. A large hole below the water line on both sides of the vessel sent the best dive boat in the world to the bottom of Cairns harbour in 30 seconds. A legend was lost. The (2nd) owners were cleared of any neglect or willful acts in two subsequent court proceedings. A mystery of the sea with many rumours covering every possible scenario. For more Coralita details use the "search" funtion box. JH on 28.07.05 @ 12:38 PM AEST [link] Tuesday, July 26th WHITE POINTER SHARK FILE
 White Pointer sharks are also called Great White sharks. They are not white - more a dirty grey colour. The white pointer shark was never commonly caught by fishermen, but JAWS movie hysteria saw all sharks targeted for their teeth and jaws as trophies. Recently CSIRO scientists have attached satellite enabled tracking tags to white pointers to learn migration movements - thought by many to coincide with southern whale migrations north for breeding. Skindivers who encountered white pointers were once being bitten all too frequently, now it seems to be surfboard riders who are the potential candidates, especially in southern Australian waters. Diver Henri Bource made a shark film after he lost half his leg to a large white pointer while snorkel swimming with sea lions (not a brilliant idea)! Rod Fox was spearfishing when he was seriously 'mouthed' by a white pointer which, luckily did not bite him in halves. The above picture was taken just two days after surgeons removed the 260 odd stiches from his chest in late 1963. Rod went on to appear in many shark documentaries - his first "Revenge of a Shark Victim". The diver with a white pointer on the beach is a 21 year-old John Harding Jr. After this encounter he began writing about the significant behavioural differences between various shark species. - A popular story on white pointer sharks in the weekly Everybodys magazine in 1967 became the first published anywhere to state these differences from a divers encounters. This was the beginning of recognition for the grey nurse shark as being no longer a lethal species. Fathom magazine later popularised this view in 1971 - that material has been perpetuated and expanded since. When the above pictures were taken - "all sharks were killers" - we know otherwise today of course. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibiting a White Shark (Monterey Aquarium, California information) In September 2004, the aquarium became the first in the world to place a white shark on long-term exhibit. The shark was tagged and successfully released back to the wild in March 2005. The data tag mapped the shark's movements for a month—travels that took the shark more than 100 miles (161 km) offshore and to depths greater than 800 feet (244 m) below the surface. We received the young white shark in August 2004 after she was caught inadvertently in a commercial fishing net. She was tagged and held in an ocean pen until September 14. Data from the electronic tag recovered from the young white shark released back to the wild in March 2005 after being on exhibit for almost six months showed that she traveled more than 100 miles offshore. The shark remained in good health and was transported to Monterey and placed in the Outer Bay exhibit. During her 198 days in the aquarium's million-gallon Outer Bay exhibit, she grew from a length of 5 feet and a weight of 62 pounds to a length at release of 6-feet-4˝ inches and a weight of 162 pounds. Having a white shark on exhibit allowed us to gather new data on the biology and behavior of young white sharks—data that will help in their management and conservation. We hope to bring another white shark to Monterey for exhibit in the summer of 2005. Newcastle and Hunter Heli Services chief pilot Steve Bazic said that in 20 years of flying over the area he had never seen so many great whites. He said: "Last time I did a count there were 18 whites ranging from juveniles to some that were three to five metres and as big as Volkswagens." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reeling in great white sharks from our surf beaches By Paul Scott and Chad Watson October 23, 2005 The Sun-Herald (Sydney Australia) Two thrill-seeking anglers have caught more than a dozen great white sharks (6 foot to 9 feet in length) by using surfboards to drop baited hooks just beyond the breakers. The great whites (white pointer sharks) have taken the bait - usually half an Australian salmon - only 50 metres from the water's edge along Stockton Bight, north of Newcastle. Kris Macklin and Glen Connell, of Boat Harbour at Port Stephens, paddle out on their surfboards with the salmon and line tucked beneath their chests. They throw the bait overboard then paddle quickly back to shore and wait for a strike in the middle of the aptly named Bight, a 30-kilometre stretch with popular surfing and bathing spots at either end (Stockton Beach to the south and Birubi in the north). JH on 26.07.05 @ 11:36 AM AEST [link] Monday, July 25th YONGALA BLUE WATER CURRENT
 Dianne Widdowson at the heavily-weighted 3 meter deco stop above SS Yongala, in beautiful clear water - but with a strong current. Estimate the current speed by noting her exhaled bubbles trailing behind her. What appears to be about three knots is in reality about ONE KNOT. Almost too strong for a diver to swim against. Our Captain had just completed a charter to measure ocean current flows - he knew currents well and claimed we were diving with about one knot. Most aboard found the going too difficult. This Yongala dive was documented in my 2nd video Reef Safari. Also shown is a dive in a current about three times more powerful at the Quetta wreck a few weeks later. So powerful was that current, your face mask would be washed away if you turned your face sideways while groping hand-over-hand down a rope to the wreck below. More about that dive eventually...... JH on 25.07.05 @ 04:54 PM AEST [link] YONGALA .......sleeping giant black stingrays
 We had 40 meters of horizontal visibility when we first arrived at the wreck site. Dee Scarr was leading a team organised by La Mer Diving Safari of New York. But the strong current associated with the very clear ocean water was too strong for most of the group. The sleeping stingray were at the other end of the wreck - not seen by any others. Hostess Dianne Widdowson got there OK - note her giant swim fins/flippers. Later manufacturers would split giant fins down the middle to make them easier to use - but if this is to add extra power, then the physics of it all escapes me. As a champion freediver commented recently: How come fish don't have split tails? (If it's supose to work as a power plus thing). My guess is the split dive fins are a fashion. JH on 25.07.05 @ 04:43 PM AEST [link] SS YONGALA BELL ........ and Wally Gibbins
 Great old picture subjects keep surfacing - here is a classic moment in reconstructed marine history - when Wally Gibbins, at great personal effort, brought his heavy and recently salvaged SS Yongala ship's bell down to the jetty at Coffs Harbour for some underwater pictures to be recorded. It will never happen again - Wally and the bell, in the water together. That is another story. For those who don't realise it, the Yongala is a very popular and huge shipwreck off Cape Bowling Green, south from Townsville in North Queensland. The wreck was better to dive decades ago but is still very worthwhile today. The beauty being with marine life it attracts - giant groper, sea snakes, fish galore and stingray schools. Like an aquarium oasis underwater - the wreck is in a big sandy bay with no reef nearby. Footnote: The SS Yongala bell was sold by Wal to Townsville Maritime Museum (reportedly for less than that offered privately. $10,000 was offered from businessman Tony Flook and also from shipwreck historian John Sumner). JH on 25.07.05 @ 04:25 PM AEST [and Wally Gibbins">link] Sunday, July 24th BLUE GROPER
 A lot of blue groper were caught by spearmen before they were partially protected in 1968. Line fishermen could catch them but not divers. They grew to about 40 pounds on the east coast, and about 50% larger in western and southern states. Smaller 'brown' groper are female. When necessary, the largest brown groper in a group turns blue and becomes the male leader. One it was thought 'blues' were a different species to 'browns' - both could be 'weighed in' at competitions. The colour change used to occur when brown groper were 12-14 pounds in weight. In southern Queensland brown groper become blue males before they reach 400gm in weight, due to intense spearing at Point Lookout, for example. Easy to see what happens where there is no state protection - the fish are on the brink of extinction. However, (North Stradbroke Island) is also at the limit of the blue groper's northern range. No big deal? JH on 24.07.05 @ 05:17 PM AEST [link] Saturday, July 23rd PHILIPPE COUSTEAU 1942 - 1979
 Enroute between Madagascar and New Caledodia during 1971, Philippe and his wife Jan had a week or more in Sydney where I interviewed them for fathom magazine. It was an exclusive story. Philippe told me he refused to be interviewed by the world's leading diver publication. We visited Watson's Bay, the Spanish Club, dined at home with diver and friend Jose Botella, and had a short holiday at Seal Rocks where we went snorkeling with a wet suits and equipment from Rick Poole of Pro Diving Services, Maroubra. Philippe was killed when the Catalina seaplane he was piloting crashed during a water-landing in Portugal. The cause? A faulty (landing wheel) hatch being open, causing the aircraft to violently plow sideways. A huge engine broke from the wing. (Details provided by the late Paul Tzimoulis of Skindiver magazine). His is survived by two children. His son Philippe Cousteau Jr. born shortly after his death, and a daughter Alexandra, today both marine environmentalist crusaders as was their father and grandfather. JH on 23.07.05 @ 04:04 PM AEST [link] Philippe Cousteau at Sugarloaf Point
 Philippe and Jan Cousteau - Big Seal Rock and Little Seal Rock are offshore from Sugarloaf Point rocks. Today a protected breeding site for grey nurse sharks. JH on 23.07.05 @ 03:49 PM AEST [link] Friday, July 22nd CORAL COD AT TWENTY METERS
 A scene a Steve's Bommie on the Ribbon Reefs - before a large anchor destroyed the surroundings. In other words, this no longer exists. JH on 22.07.05 @ 07:40 PM AEST [link] SPIDER SHELL UNDERWATER
 Clear, shallow water on a reef in The Coral Sea is a delight. The live shell was positioned better, for this picture. JH on 22.07.05 @ 07:35 PM AEST [link] Thursday, July 21st JAWS SNEAKERS
 Sneakers released to coincide with the first Jaws movie. JH on 21.07.05 @ 02:07 PM AEST [link] THE AUTHOR MEETS JAWS .....Peter Benchley in Australia
 The book was a hit and the film was not yet released when Jaws author Benchley came to Australia to learn and to dive similtaneously with sharks! With his face mask completely fogged at Sykes Reef near Heron Island and with two big sharks nearby, I instructed him to clear it. He was most thankful later and gave me his Jaws film production T-shirt (not the one on the JAWS inspired youth, above)! While I was out of the water (reloading my 16mm camera), he was in a dangerous position just one meter from the feeding jaws of two 10 foot tiger sharks. Maybe the mask had fogged again? Diver Ron Isbel was nearby, positioned above, with a .303 powerhead. Just in case. "They did not appreciate the danger they were in" said Ron Isbel later. His view backed by Merv Cox and Ron Zangari who saw and photographed the situation, reported here for the first time. The production was an episode of The American Sportsman - a pre Jaws (the movie) promotion. A few months later Benchley and Jaws were international movie sensations. Director Spielberg was on his way to a brilliant career too. Peter Benchley returned to Australia ten years later to film sharks having then become a crusader for a better recognition of the species. JH on 21.07.05 @ 01:41 PM AEST [link] Wednesday, July 20th "SURF SCENE" a documentary by Ron Taylor
 Ron and Valerie Taylor met surf film maker Paul Witzig at Sydney's Union Theatre while he was exhibiting the Endless Summer surf movie. Paul and Ron had an idea to work together on their seperate films. Ron's idea became Surf Scene (featuring surfing and adventure diving),Paul made The Hot Generation. L-R WindanSea surfer Robert Coneeley, diver Valerie Taylor, future 'world champion' surfer Russell Hughes, surf girl-model Tanya Binning and cameraman Paul Witzig with his 16mm gear. JH on 20.07.05 @ 06:34 PM AEST [link] NOOSA HEADS BEACH, Laguna Bay
 Where is the crowded beach? Noosa was once an unknown holiday destination. Tanya Binning pictured, the late Kevin Brennan (back turned) and in the distance is Robert Conneeley and Russell Hughes with their boards. JH on 20.07.05 @ 06:26 PM AEST [link] NOOSA HEADS BEACH 1965
 We rented the house in the background and parked our boats out in front on the beach. Ron Taylor and Paul Witzig set up their beach studio outside. JH on 20.07.05 @ 06:22 PM AEST [link] COLOURED SANDS .....North of Noosa
 Tanya Binning watches Ron Taylor seeking some cheap thrills with the surf as we head toward what was at the time, a secret location for surfing. JH on 20.07.05 @ 06:18 PM AEST [link] SURFING DOUBLE ISLAND POINT
 We filmed boardriders from our boats while riding the same waves. Robert Conneeley takes off - a similar photo made the cover of Bob Evans' Surfing World. JH on 20.07.05 @ 06:16 PM AEST [link] GREY NURSE SHARK
 This picture illustrates why this species of shark is so popular with marine aquarium owners. The real grey nurse story is yet to be told..... JH on 20.07.05 @ 12:13 AM AEST [link] Sunday, July 17th MATING SEA SNAKES
 In the blue waters of Marion Reef (The Coral Sea) I found a pair of snakes coupled. Diver Richard Weir held the reptiles for my 16mm camera. The resulting scene appears in the Australian Seafari 16mm motion picture film. Although it occured many years ago, I've not seen the event filmed again elsewhere. JH on 17.07.05 @ 10:26 PM AEST [link] SEA SNAKE and diver
 A big Stokes sea snake (stokesi) holds enough venom to kill a dozen divers. They don't see us as being anything worth biting unless for their own defense, so you don't do anything to annoy them. The bite of any sea snake is to be avoided, venom is stronger than most land snakes. The medical anti-venene used to treat sea snake bites is also a hazard and is only given as a last ditch effort - if given too soon it kills you. This picture was taken near Yeppoon, Queensland. Model: Christine Danaher. JH on 17.07.05 @ 10:01 PM AEST [link] Saturday, July 16th PRO DIVE
 Rick Poole introduces Tanya Binning to scuba. The first full page colour advertisement (for a dive store) in Australia was this picture. It ran for just one issue in fathom #6. Location: La Perouse overlooking Botany Bay, Sydney. JH on 16.07.05 @ 10:27 PM AEST [link] BABY SHARKS SAVED
 The idea (to save the sharks) came from a friend's young wife who watched as a razor sharp knife sliced open the stomach of the whaler shark. We'd noticed a steady quiver in the stomach area some hours after the shark had been brought ashore. This was sooon discovered to be a pregnant female with her litter. "Put them in the water" said our friend, "see if they can swim". The sequence was recorded on 16mm motion picture film with my Bolex hand wound camera. Later becoming popular-with-children in the 90 minute cinema documentary Australian Seafari. The movie toured regional east coast Australia for more a decade, proof of it's popularity. It was also a popular press and newspaper feature at the beginning of a new appreciation, curiosity and fasination for everything 'sharks'. JH on 16.07.05 @ 01:23 PM AEST [link] SUNFISH CAPTURED
 Sydney Sea Hunters club divers struggle with a sunfish at Wattamolla inlet in the Royal National Park near Sydney. John M Harding, Kay Milburn and Ken Campbell in the water, assisting Vic Ley (not shown). A marine aquarium was paying good prices for live exhibits, sharks, turtles and in this case an unusual visitor to the Sydney region, the mola-mola or sunfish. The huge dorsal fin of a sunfish has been known to terrify fishermen aboard small boats who mistake the fin for that of a giant shark. JH on 16.07.05 @ 01:07 AM AEST [link] SUNFISH
 Kay Milburn struggles with the huge sunfish whose weight threatened to swamp the aluminium boat. Note the high dorsal fin. JH on 16.07.05 @ 12:59 AM AEST [link] SUNFISH IN CAPTIVITY
 Vic Ley inspects the sunfish he captured for Marineland (now OceanWorld) Manly. JH on 16.07.05 @ 12:55 AM AEST [link] Thursday, July 14th WHALER SHARK
 Off Sydney. I saw this shark coming and got behind a boulder until it was two meters away, then I suddenly appeared and flashed this image as the shark turned to avoid me. It's a dangerous and common species. Length about 7.5 feet. JH on 14.07.05 @ 05:55 PM AEST [link] SHARK MESHING NET
 A young hammerhead shark hopelessly tangled in a nylon net off Coolangatta's Greenmount Beach. The cover of fathom for the SHARKS issue 1971. Many newspapers later serialised the issue into a five part, Monday to Friday feature. Sales of fathom went through the roof boosted by national ABC TV promotion in the nightly teen programme GTK. JH on 14.07.05 @ 05:50 PM AEST [link] GREY NURSE SHARK SUNSET 1968
 There would be a $200,000 fine for this act of marine vandalism today. This picture was an editorial feature in fathom SHARKS issue 1971; by then serious adventure seekers knew there was absolutely no merit in chasing this quiet species as a trophy. Maybe beginners thought differently. The true grey nurse shark story is yet to be told. Much is distortion that has been repeated and plaguiarised. This picture always had merit for avoiding the stereo-type hunter smiling with catch pose. JH on 14.07.05 @ 05:41 PM AEST [link] VALERIE TAYLOR & WHALER SHARK 1965
 Flinders Reef, August 1965, during the recording of the 16mm documentary Surf Scene. Time has not been kind to the original colour in this picture - the transparency having been in various temperatures and some shocking conditions, it is a miracle this picture has ever survived. Published once by fathom magazine as a promotion for the next issue - a SHARKS edition. JH on 14.07.05 @ 05:27 PM AEST [link] QUEENSLAND GROPER 1968
 A giant groper on the beach after being speared - something you won't see happen again. Groper or grouper? Groper in Australia. These big fish are a hazard in the far tropical north, but they are no longer common. Most are smart enough to avoid people. In murky water it might be a different story if you swam near their cave. These great fish have been protected (in Australia) for some years now. A pair of quiet groper would appear and be hand-fed by tourist boats at Beaver Reef near Dunk Island. The largest was killed by a person who should have known better. Big fish are always a temptation to catch whereas it's the larger fish that produce the most eggs. Therefore throw the big ones back and take the smaller fish. This picture advertised the Australian Underwater Film Expo 1970 in USA, a programme of 16mm adventures with a b&w photograph exhibition. It was also a cover on two Australian magazines (Australian Fisheries and Australian Skindivers Magazine but otherwise has not been seen since). JH on 14.07.05 @ 05:17 PM AEST [link] Wednesday, July 13th SOUTH POLE
 An interesting pattern occurs when you zoom in on the south pole from space using Earth.Google.com JH on 13.07.05 @ 10:51 PM AEST [link] Tuesday, July 12th AQUARIUM FISH COLLECTION SHOCK
 It's now rare to see vast swarms of tiny fish above a coral pinnacle like popular Pixie Bommie on the northern Ribbon Reef region. When we dived such a rare reef, (pictured above) it was likened to how 'Pixie' used to be. The problem: licensed aquarium fish collection divers have various methods to catch the tiny ones. Some reef's popular with the diver-travel trade because of the clearer water like that pictured would be best left alone (or protected from such legal acts of eco vandalism). "A better idea would be to collect these tiny reef fish from murkier inshore waters, avoided by divers....if at all" say the dive boat owners. That makes sense to me. More: June 2 2005 archives Fish Rights. JH on 12.07.05 @ 05:22 PM AEST [link] Saturday, July 9th MARINE WEATHER
 A surface water temperature chart at the marine section www.wunderground.com will be interesting for divers and surfers. Easy to follow functions, tide charts even a photo gallery of weather pictures contributed by members. USA and the world. Click the MARINE box. JH on 09.07.05 @ 09:39 PM AEST [link] Wednesday, July 6th JAPANESE SEAPLANE WRECKAGE WWII Kapingamarangi Atoll
 Just offshore lies the wreckage of an air force bomber which was lost when one of it's own bombs was struck by Japanese anti aircraft fire, the event being witnessed on the ground. (Detailed in the book below). The Royal Australian Air Force Hudson bombers made raids on this location from their base at Rabaul, New Guinea. An American destroyer shelled the Japanese occupied island during WWII, perhaps mistaking toilets for more significant structures. EMORY, KENNETH P. 1965 (reprinted 1985). Kapingamarangi: social and religious life of a Polynesian atoll (in: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin, no 228). Honolulu. Bernice P. Bishop Museum. No 24 Squadron had four Hudsons and 12 Wirraways in Rabaul. In January 1942 the Hudsons and the Catalinas were engaged in long-range reconnaissance of Kapingamarangi and Truk. I clearly recall that my first (weather) forecast for the RAAF following the news of Pearl Harbour was for a Hudson flying from Rabaul for reconnaissance of the Japanese island of Kapingamarangi some two degrees north of the equator. About this time Sqn Ldr Dick Cohen made a 20 hour reconnaissance over Japanese-held islands to the east and north-east of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. These reconnaissances revealed warships and flying boats in the harbour of Truk and bombers on the airstrip. The Hudsons and Catalinas mounted bombing missions against Truk but bad weather made it difficult to find targets. One Catalina was lost on take-off after refuelling at Kavieng and two more disappeared while on reconnaissance north of New Britain. SOURCE: http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0423.html Footnote: Q. Did the RAAF lose a Hudson bomber at Kapingamarangi? JH on 06.07.05 @ 11:44 AM AEST [link] KAPINGAMARANGI CANOE 1969
 Made from a breadfruit tree without any metal fastenings - an amazing vessel built with skills rapidly becoming lost, (maybe). See: Kapingamarangi canoe building project details: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~mspp/kapingamarangi/canoe.html JH on 06.07.05 @ 11:31 AM AEST [link] Tuesday, July 5th DOLPHIN UNDERWATER symbols of a change needed.
 Dolphin trainers have compared the intelligence level of these animals with that of a smart dog. Others see the dolphin as something of spiritual significant, symbolising a need for a better and deeper understanding of sea creatures. A rights for all sea creatures even.....which is long overdue and extends far beyond present thoughts of banning, discouraging certain seafood soups in Asia. But will it and can it ever work? The hope is with young people getting the messages. Perhaps this sparking from popular music and song writers efforts - remember last weekend and how music was the powerful force behind the G8 promotion for changes. JH on 05.07.05 @ 11:08 AM AEST [link] Monday, July 4th RIBBON REEFS Steve's Bommie
 There is a plaque somewhere amongst the coral dedicated to a diver called Steve. (Not a brilliant idea for future Asian visitors to drop them in on a quasi-cemetary). Most now call the location Steve's Bommie. the alternate name Temple of Doom no longer in vogue, along with the movie with a similar title. The original 'Steve' may not be too happy with what is happening to his resting place. The delicate corals and tiny silver glassfish (pictured) seem to have been badly knocked-about by large boat anchors. All gone! JH on 04.07.05 @ 01:15 PM AEST [link] Saturday, July 2nd CHILDREN IN DETENTION CENTRE picture
Friday, July 1st FISH EYES
 The same fish left side and right side, but note the different eyes! Very uncommon in the animal kingdom, such an unusual fish would have already become food for something else before reaching maturity. The species is a tarwhine similar to the common bream (silver bream, black bream etc) and found in sub tropical waters north of Sydney. JH on 01.07.05 @ 05:07 PM AEST [link] |
