Dive Number: 206 29/10/11 16.21, St Leonards Pier

Wind: 10knot south westerlies

Tide: Low tide at Geelong??

Conditions: Cant remember..i’m catching up on posts

Visibilty: 5-6m

Water Temp: 17.6c

Bottom Time: 113minutes

Max Depth: 4.0m

Air usage: 70bar/1000psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: A macro dive at St Leonards. The usual suspects around with a couple of fish i couldn’t ID. I found another stargazer…after just coming across one at Portarlington. This one was checking out the gobies as a potential snack. There were lots of mysid shrimp around, so i tried to get some 1:1s of the tiny little critters.

Camera Details: Canon 60mm , SS200 Strobe

Photos:

Dive Number: 198  15/10/11  18.38, St Leonards Pier

Wind:   15knot westerlies

Tide:   high tide at Geelong

Conditions:  overcast, windy but flat at st leonards.

Visibilty:   6m

Water Temp: 16.0c

Bottom Time: 67minutes

Max Depth: 4.3m

Air usage: 70bar/1000psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details:  Camera issues on this dive left me with no strobe, so just a few ambient light shots. I do like the movement in the ray shot and the moonlighter shot has a painterly quality too… so not a total right off photography dive.  

Camera Details:  Canon 60mm ,  SS200 Strobe

Photos:

Dive Number: 169  09/07/11  12.42,  St Leonards Pier

Wind:   25 – 30knot Westerlies

Tide:  2hrs before 0.44 low tide at Geelong

Conditions:  Cold windy day, but as St Leonards is protected from the strong westerlies, the water was fairly calm.  Vis was average, and it was freakin cold in the water.

Visibilty:   6m

Water Temp: 10c

Bottom Time: 51minutes

Max Depth: 3.8m

Air usage: 70bar/1000psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details:     The strong westerlies gave me two options;  Ozone or St Leonards. I opted for St Leonards as it was mainly a dive to try to see if my YS120 strobe was going to work as a slave when strobes where positioned for wide angle. The answer came out a NO, and i’m now going to have to make up an optical cord to get this strobe to fire reliably. On entry, it was almost like i wasn’t wearing a wetsuit at all, my legs froze instantly in the numbing 10c waters.  I’ve decided this is way too cold to be diving in a 6mm wetsuit, and i’m going to pull out the old clunky uncompressed neoprene drysuit for my next dive in the bay.  Not a lot of marine life around, but the sponge growth was looking healthy. Some pygmy squid and dumpling squid made an appearance in the shallows when i exited.  

Camera Details:  Tokina  10-17mm , single SS200 strobes.

Dive Report:

Dive Number: 161  04/06/11  10.34, St Leonards Pier 

Wind:   20knot South-Westerlies

Tide:  0.5hr before 0.22 low tide  at Geelong

Conditions:    Cold, bleak, and crappy vis.

Visibilty:   4m

Water Temp: 12c

Bottom Time: 45minutes

Max Depth: 3.4m

Air usage: 35bar/500psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details:   A dive just to use up a low tank. The conditions weren’t inspiring,  so i chucked on the macro lens which hasn’t had a run for a while. Best find was a Spiny Gurnard flashing its blue line butterfly wings around. Just like  a butterly, it wouldn’t sit still very long for a photo.     

Camera Details: Canon  100mm , single SS200 strobe.

Dive Report:

Dive Number: 159  15/05/11  11.27, St Leonards Pier

Wind:   10-15knot Westerlies

Tide:  2hrs after 0.94 high tide  at Geelong

Conditions:   Overcast but a sheltered site in westerlies meant the water was nice and calm. Nice vis too.

Visibilty:   8m

Water Temp: 13c   – and no gloves!

Bottom Time: 58minutes

Max Depth: 3.7m

Air usage: 105bar/1500psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details:    Damn the waters got cold quickly! 13c felt like 6c!  At least there were a few good critters around. A baby Cuttlefish came to play and a Stargazer sat out in the open, totally above the sand.  He took off when i approached though so no photos. : (        

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , dual SS200 strobes

Dive Report:

Dive Number: 152 10/04/11  11.19,  St Leonards

Wind:   20-25 knot W’s

Tide:  3hrs after 0.96 high tide at Geelong.

Conditions:  Howling winds, but protected from westerlies here. The water looked better than it was..vis was shite.

Visibilty:   2m

Water Temp: 17c

Bottom Time: 68minutes

Max Depth: 5.2m

Air usage: 105bar/1500psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details:     I still held on hope for Spidercrabs, i decided to do a full trip around the pier and the break, and then out north of the pier. I saw lots of shells and a few straggler survivors, but no large groups.  I did more swimming that photography on this dive so nothing to show.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , dual SS200 strobes

Dive Report:

Dive Number: 150 27/03/11  13.26,  St Leonards Pier

Wind:   10-15 knot SE’s

Tide:  2.5hrs before 0.15 low tide at Geelong.

Conditions:  Water was somehwta dirty, but not overly bad vis. 

Visibilty:   6m

Water Temp: 18c

Bottom Time: 65minutes

Max Depth: 3.7m

Air usage: 70bar/1000psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details:     Reports of spider crab aggregations and feeding penguins the day before lured me to St Leonards. Unfortutelythe spider crabs had moved on, but there was still about 10 around (down from 120+), and i didn’t spot the penguin. I got to try out my new stainless steel shears on a spider crab tangled in fishing line.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , dual SS200 strobes

Dive Report:

Dive Number: 136 13/02/11  14.44 ,  St Leonards Pier

Wind:   15knot S’s

Tide:  2hrs before 0.16 low tide at Geelong.

Conditions:  Sun was out from the clouds and the water looked in reasonable. Vis was cloudy but ok.

Visibilty: 4-5m

Water Temp: 20c

Bottom Time: 47 minutes

Max Depth: 3.3m

Air usage: 35bar/500psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details:    My second short dive of the day with only  500psi (35bar) in the tank. I regretted it after finding some blubber jellies, and bouncing the hell out of the dive dangerously trying to photograph them and conserve air. There were some interesting lighting effects under the pier that worked well wit the jellies.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , dual SS200 strobes.

Dive Report:

Dive Number: 128 23/01/11  16.10 , St Leonards Pier

Wind:   10-15 knot S’s.

Tide:  2.5hrs before 0.93 high tide at geelong.

Conditions:  Fine sunny day, with people everywhere, and divers everywhere…all kicking up sand into the water, sometimes leaving zero vis.

Visibilty: 1-3m

Water Temp: 22c

Bottom Time: 114 minutes

Max Depth: 3.9m

Air usage: 105bar/1500psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details:     Visibility was awful, and although i suspected as much and put my macro lens on in anticipation, it  wasn’t real fun diving. I headed out the back were i thought i might be a bit clearer and played around with a snoot. Not a great deal of postable photos from this dive.  I think i was a bit optomistic trying to do 1:1 macro of mysid shrimps with a snoot on my strobe.  

Camera Details: Canon 100mm , dual SS200 strobes and snoot.

Dive Report:

Dive Number: 118 27/12/10 12.51  St Leonards Pier

Wind:   15-20knot  S – SW.

Tide: 2hrs after 0.30 low tide at Geelong.

Conditions:   Conditions looked fairly ordinary with a lot of surface chop and noticable current running to the north and chopping up over the sandbar. Current wasn’t too bad in the water though.

Visibilty: 4-5m

Water Temp: 16c

Bottom Time: 79 minutes

Max Depth: 3.6m

Air usage: 70bar/1000psi ????

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: This  afternoon dive turned out to be a bit more like a night dive, with species like velvetfish and Cobblers out and about. Verco’s nudi’s were out and mating. A nice little dive. 

Camera Details: Canon  100mm , single SS200 strobes

Dive Report:

Dive Number: 112 12/12/10 12.18  St Leonards Pier

Wind:  15-20knot W’s

Tide:   3 hours before 0.35 low tide at Geelong

Conditions:  The water was cloudy and green…rainy, often overcast..the only plus..no current.

Visibilty: 3m

Water Temp: 18c

Bottom Time: 66 minutes

Max Depth: 3.9m

Air usage: 60bar/900psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details:  Its been a week since my last dive…too long. So i had to get in a dive and St leonards was the obvious option. I wasn’t execting much with strong variable winds and high rainfall over the week wreaking havoc on the bay.  Highlights were big schools of goatfish feeding on the bottom, and the Verco’s Tambja’s have arrived back for summer.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , dual SS200 strobes

Dive Report:

Dive Number: 104 14/11/10 15.23 St Leonards Pier

Wind:  15knot SE’s

Tide:   1 hour before 0.38 low tide at Geelong

Conditions:  A bit of southerly current and water looked sandy from a distance…vis was horrible.

Visibilty: 2-3m

Water Temp: 17c

Bottom Time: 71 minutes

Max Depth: 3.6m

Air usage: 70bar/1000psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details:  The water was very dirty and vis bad. The only benefit is there were some schooling fish there that hung around the rock wall. There were some big trevally around, and some large blue weed whiting.   Other than that a pretty ordinary dive.    

Camera Details: Canon 17-40mm , dual SS200 strobes

Dive Report:

Dive Number: 91 10/10/2010 15.55 St Leonards Pier

Wind: 10-15knot easterlies. (NE’s)

Tide:   0.5hr before 0.94 high tide at geelong

Conditions:  Dreaded easterlies can blow out the whole of the Bellarine peninsula, but i was dying for a dive, so i did a bit of a circuit to see if anywhere was diveable. The Springs were planned, but it looked surgey, so i swung past St Leonards. It was suprisingly flat, and the vis was ok too. Must be protected from the break. 

Bottom Type:  Sand bottom.

Visibilty: 5-6m

Water Temp: 15c

Bottom Time: 109 minutes

Max Depth: 3.5m

Air usage: 140bar/2000psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details:  I didn’t get out very far before spotting a Lions Mane Jellyfish. Then came another and another. I quickly realised there was a bit of a migration going on, and i was probably past by at least 300 jellies moving north to south by the current.  Most of them small  juveniles with a  few larger ones.  Stupidly, i stuck with the 100mm macro for the whole dive, but should have changed to a wide angle, since i blew a rare opportunity.   

Camera Details: Canon100mm , dual SS200 strobes.

Dive Report:

Dive Number: 76 28/08/2010 10.47 St Leonards

Wind: 10 knot W.

Tide: 1hr before 0.33 low tide at Geelong

Conditions: A nice day…light winds and a still surface. Suprisingly good vis too.

Bottom Type: Pier pylons over sand base.

Visibilty: 5-7m

Water Temp: 10c

Bottom Time: 59 minutes

Max Depth: 3.5m

Air usage: 85bar/1200psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: Finally caught up with Chris Jansen for a dive. It was looking like a good weekend for diving, but around the heads and coast didn’t promise good vis, so we stuck to St Leonards. Luckily it paid off with pretty decent vis nearing a low tide.

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , single SS200 strobe

Dive Report: I had the fisheye on and there wasn’t a lot of fisheye subjects, so Chris was the model for most this dive. Love the smile Chris! ; )

Chris working the pylons:

A few general scenes under St Leonards:

Swimming Anemone:

An 11-armed Star precariously climbing some brown algae:

A wrasse just kicking back in the weed;

Hulafish in their usual spots:

On the way back we came across a small cuttlefish who was pretty happy to pose for pics.

Chris taking some shots:

This shots just funny:

Dive Number: 71 26/07/2010 20.00 St LeonardsPier

Wind: 5 knot W – NW.

Tide: 2hr before 0.63 low tide at the Geelong

Conditions: Full moon, clear skies, glassy water, absolutely perfect.

Bottom Type: Pier Pylons on sandy bottom scattered with old timber and some misc junk.

Visibilty: 10m

Water Temp: 11c

Bottom Time: 60 minutes

Max Depth: 2.9m

Air usage: 105bar/1500psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: Conditions were absolutely perfect for a night dive at St Leonards. I’ve been wanting to night dive here ever since seeing the Pale Octopus in daylight hours, so i was hoping it would be a bit more active during the night. I was suprised to see another diver in the water just because it was mid-winter, but looking at the conditions it didn’t really suprise me. It was one of the most magical dives i’ve had. I switched off the torches and dived by moonlight with luminescent plankton swimming midwater all around me. Then dived under the pier to check out what other critters were about.

Camera Details: Sigma 17-70mm , single SS200 strobe

Dive Report: After experiencing the joys of diving by moonlight, i headed under the pier to check if the Pale Octopus was home. He sure was…same spot, different posture. It almost looked like it was wrapping itself in its tenticles to keep warm. Smart occy in 11degree water temps! I actually forgot my hood, and had to resort to wrapping a rash vest around my head..chilly but it better than nothing.

A little Bob-tailed Squid was keeping the occy company.

A nudi hung precariously onto the end of this bit of weed.

I saw a seaquirt-thing ove r in edithburgh that i’d never seen anything like before, funnily enough i saw the same thing at St Leonards on this dive.

A small Surf Crab:

Some type of goby..one i’ve never seen before:

Anenomes will grow on anything!

I saw my first ever snake eel. It moved around persistantly, eventually found its hole and buried itself in the sand.

Just before getting out, a pretty large dumpling squid was resting on the sand and shimmied itself deeper into the sand.

Dive Number: 55 03/07/2010 11.47 St Leonards Pier

Wind: 10 knot Westerlies

Tide: 2hrs before 0.38 low tide at geelong

Conditions: A pretty typical wintery day, but westerly winds meant the water was nice and calm. Cold as hell though….10c already!

Bottom Type: Pier Pylons over sand.

Visibilty: 6m

Water Temp: 10c (it burns!)

Bottom Time: 87 minutes

Max Depth: 3.5m

Air usage: 140bar/2000psi

SAC: ???? litres/min

Details: I’d just bought a 7mm neoprene drysuit, so this was mostly a dive to give it a try and get my weighting right. The lure of photographying the Pale Octopus again with a wider lens was also strong. After 10 minutes of screwing around, adding some more weight, and working out i needed some leg weights, i got busy with the photos.

Camera Details: Canon 17-40mm , single SS200 strobe

Dive Report: I caught up with the Pale Octopus again on this dive. Plus one of his night time buddies, a Cobbler. The rest of the time was just shooting some scapes.

Dive Number: 51 20/06/2010 15.28 St Leonards Pier

Wind: 10-15 knot Westerlies

Tide: 30mins after 0.40 low tide at Geelong

Conditions: Another ordinary overcast day, but the westerlies had dropped off, and St Leonards is nice and protected from Westerlies and the seas were calm there.

Bottom Type: Pier Pylons on sand base.

Visibilty: 4m

Water Temp: 12c

Bottom Time: 57 minutes

Max Depth: 8.2m

Air usage: 80bar/1200psi

SAC: 13.7 litres/min

Details:

Camera Details: Canon 100mm macro , single SS200 strobe and snoot

Dive Report: I had the snoot and macro lens for this dive, so gave these sand anemones a try. These are difficult to light normally, sinc ethe light bounces off the white sand and blows out the image, so they were the perfect candidate for a snoot.

The snoot also worked well on this ascidian to bring out more of the detail.

This dive was on dusk, and i saw an eye poking out of a old pipe. I haven’t been on many night dives to see octopus, so i was pretty happy to see this guy, even though i did have my macro lens on. I had to make do with lots of eye shots ; )

Dive Number: 48 13/06/2010 14.22 St Leonards Pier

Wind: 10 knot SW

Tide: 3 hours before 1.11 high tide at Geelong

Conditions: An overcast day without subshine all day, but no great rain either. Conditions around the waters at end of the peninsula were very still and conditions looks clean from land.

Bottom Type: Pier pylons on sand base.

Visibilty: 7-10m

Water Temp: 13c

Bottom Time: 72 minutes

Max Depth: 3.9m

Air usage: 110bar/1500psi

SAC: 13.7 litres/min

Details: Another day of very good vis, but very dark due to overcast conditions. I decided to put the fisheye on this dive and hoped to come across the decorator crab again and hopefully see some other large subjects. The water is starting to get icy cold, and i descended as soon as possible. My face and hands were really feeling the cold on entry. Something even a drysuit isn’t going to fix!

Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm fisheye , single SS200 strobe.

Dive Report: The 5 armed seastar is a pest in port phillip and i saw this one crawling along the sandy bottom almost like it was invading.

A Mosiac Leather Jacket tried to blend into the pylon growth.

The decorator crab wasn’t out in the open feeding like my last dive here, but instead was clinging to the side of the pylon.

An old pylon stump with some growth.

One of the Native stars, the 11-armed starfish:

This Mosiac Leather swore he was camoflaged and that i couldn’t see him.

A cluster of anemones beneath brown Algea.

A cute little baby Globefish.

The Mosiac Leatherjackets were out in force today.

Ascidians on the pylons.

A swimminng anemone:

Dive Number: 47 05/06/2010 13.21 St Leonards Pier

Wind: 15 knot NW

Tide: 0.56 low tide at the Heads

Conditions: A cold wintery day. Heavy showers during my drive over from Queenscliffe and they continued on into my dive. The overcast conditions made the water look very clear from the carpark and it wasn’t lying. Visibility was awesome, but i kitted up for macro dive.

Bottom Type: Pier pylons on sand base.

Visibilty: 7-10m

Water Temp: 14c

Bottom Time: 75 minutes

Max Depth: 3.5m

Air usage: 110bar/1500psi

SAC: 13.7 litres/min

Details: Nearly the best vis i’d seen at St Leanards, despite the rain. A couple of young spearos braved the conditions, but i told them it was illegal to spear with 300m of a pier, which they agreed they’d head out further. Whether they did was another story, but at least they know now.

Camera Details: Sigma100mm , single SS200 strobe.

Dive Report: Straight after a descent i spotted a large decorator crab adorned beautifully in orange sponge and weed. It was digging into the sand foraging for food right in the open. A wide angle moment when i have a macro on! I had to make do with some macro head shots, but i just didn’t do the opportunity justice.

There seemed to be a lot of Biscuit Stars around today in all different colours and patterns.

A pygmy leatherjacket peaked its face out from behind the pylon:

I’m not sure i’ve seen this species before…some type of Goby:

These Lizardfish are always around St Leonards.

I decided to put the snoot on and had a go at an anemone, since everything else was a bit skitish at having a snoot in its face.

A Mosiac Leatherjacket was feeding in the open..a sight you dont often see as they are usually trying to blend into the pylons.

Heres a closeup of a larger Mosiac Leatherjacket:

Another more abstract shot taken with the snoot of a fanworm:

Dive Number: 38 15/05/2010 11.40 St Leonards Pier

Wind: light

Tide: 1.5hrs after 0.21 low tide at Geelong

Conditions: Beautiful still conditions with fresh clear water.

Bottom Type: Pier pylons on sand base.

Visibilty: 8-10m

Water Temp: 15c

Bottom Time: 94 minutes

Max Depth: 3.6m

Air usage: 120bar/1800psi

SAC: 12.5 litres/min

Details: A really nice and clean dive. Great vis and some nice lighting effects through the water. After taking some photos under the pier i swam around the back of the breakwater, but there really wasn’t much there too see. My strobes started misbehaving on this dive and i think one of my ss200′s has now died.

Camera Details: Canon 17-40mm , dual SS200 strobe.

Dive Report: I took advantage of the nice vis and did some wide angled shots. Here’s a natural light shot:

I’m still yet to find out what these old wheels are off:

A sunburst and a sponge:

Some more sponges:

An 11-armed stardfish checking out a pipe:

Another sunburst and some brown algea:

Dive Number: 37 09/05/2010 12.17 St Leonards Pier

Wind: ????

Tide: 2hrs after 0.82 high tide at Geelong

Conditions: Average.

Bottom Type: Pier pylons on sand base.

Visibilty: 3-4m

Water Temp: 16c

Bottom Time: 82 minutes

Max Depth: 4.1m

Air usage: 110bar/1600psi

SAC: 12.5 litres/min

Details: The conditions and vis where avergae but i still went out with my fisheye lens on. The find of the day was a brand new Jarvis Walker fishing rod. I gotta say it felt wierd swimming underwater holding a fishing rod ; )

Camera Details: Canon 17-40mm , dual SS200 strobe.

Dive Report:

A cluster of Anemones:

In your face pylon sponge:

Some hulafish swimming around the pylons:

Dive Number: 35 08/05/2010 10.14 St Leonards Pier

Wind: ??????

Tide: 45mins after 0.85 high tide at Geelong

Conditions: Pretty aweful from memory…i’ve got to get use to writing these things down straight away!

Bottom Type: Pier pylons on sand base.

Visibilty: 1-2m

Water Temp: 16c

Bottom Time: 92 minutes

Max Depth: 3.9m

Air usage: 120bar/1800psi

SAC: 12.5 litres/min

Details: From memory this was a shocker of a day with waves lapping at the shore stirring up the sand. I put my macro lens on and had to do close ups only.

Camera Details: Canon 100mm , dual SS200 strobe.

Dive Report:

A blenny sitting on the pylon sponge:

Hulafish:

Spotted Stingaree eye:

Dive Number: 32 26/04/2010 15.03 St Leonards Pier

Wind: 15 knot westerlies

Tide: 3 hrs after 0.90 high tide at the geelong

Conditions: Reasonable conditions…fairly choppy on the surface, but the vis was OK.

Bottom Type: Peir pylons on sand

Visibilty: 5-7m

Water Temp: 18c

Bottom Time: 100 minutes

Max Depth: 3.6m

Air usage: 120bar/1800psi

SAC: 10.7 litres/min

Details: Probably my favorite St Leonards dive yet. Its the first time i’ve seen a cuttlefish here and also found the ellusive Conger Eel that i’ve often heard about. Also found a ver colour flabellina nudibranch..but didn’t have my macro lens on.

Camera Details: Canon 17-40mm , dual SS200 strobe.

Dive Report: I started the dive not really knowing what i wanted to target, but i stayed mid water for a while and started tto check out the pylons rather than going to the bottom and scanning the sand. This ascidian stood out to me.

This little leatherjacket had the same idea as me and just hung close to the pylons .

A lone seastar clung to a pylon remanant on the bottom.

A Spotted Stingaree cruised the seagrass just outside the pylons.

I accidently disturbed this baby cuttlefish that was doing its best to blend into its environment. Did a damn good job too!

Once i disturbed him though he took off in search of another patch to blend into:

As i was photographying the cuttlefish a baby flounder (or is it a sole???), was putting on a bit of a display, rearing up and giving away its position against the sandy bottom.

He didn’t really like being the centre of attention though and took off pretty quick.

My air was getting low and i spotted a critter peaking out from a small metal pipe. It was conger eel, but it was very shy and this is about as far as he came out. I couldn’t stick around long because of low air, but i’m hoping he’ll be there next dive.

Dive Number: 26 03/04/2010 13.05 St Leonards Peir

Wind: 10 knot South-Easterlies

Tide: 20mins before 0.13 low tide at the Geelong

Conditions: Overcast in the morning clearing to a fine and sunny day. A very low tide, with little chop, and visibility was ok for a macro-dive

Bottom Type: Sand bottom with Pier pylons..

Visibilty: 5m

Water Temp: 20c

Bottom Time: 105 minutes

Max Depth: 3.2m

Air usage: 125bar/1800psi

SAC: 11.1 litres/min

Details: This was going to be a dedicated macro snoot dive, and I decided to simplify and just take a single strobe. After initially heading out I heard the noise I fear the most; the annoying buzz of my leak detector! Luckily I was still fairly shallow and close to shore so I held the rig level, switched everything off, and quickly got back to shore and up to the car. After disassembly I was relieved to only see a thimble full of water…not enough to do any damage to camera or housing electronics. A slightly kinked o-ring caused the leak, so I fixed it and got back diving. (Thanks to Andrew Newton and his DIY leak detector!!! This is the second time this $5 device has saved my rig!)

Camera Details: Canon 100mm macro, single SS200 strobe with funnel snoot

Dive Report: Take two….I headed back out and tried some texture shots of one of the two swimming anemones that sat in the shallows.

Heading out to the first arm of the pier, two friendly blennies posed for shots.

I’ve never noticed that blennies had little rows of teeth:

A Sand Goby looked on nearby, so who was I not to take his photo.

A Ceratosoma brevicaudatum slid along the sand. These guys are too big for my macro lens, so I decided to get a shot of its gills.

After not seeing any seahorses for ages at St leonards, I finally found a small one nestled in some weed. They have a tendency to look away from the camera and a bit of swell made using the snoot impossible, so I had to make do with some standard macro shots.