Monday 2 June 2014

Pictures and branchs June 2014

Photos of the month:
1. Burning heavenly
2. Rollers
3. Urn reflections
4. Fighting over food
5. Up-winds
6. Angry
7. On a catwalk
8. Here comes the groom
9. Sunset purple
10. Blackbird
11. Rockingbirds
12. Lord Dracula
13. Burton's Snake-lizard (Lialis burtonis)
14. Butterflies
15. Nothing beats a little scratch
16. Snap the fish
17. Peace
18. Migaloo's brother
19. Base Jumping
20. Spinal twist
21. Charon's bridge

Branchs of the month:
1. Goniobranchus rufomaculatus
2. Chromodoris elisabethina
3. Cuthona ornata
4. Cuthona sibogae
5. Cratena simba (not pictured)
6. Caloria indica (not pictured)

Fin soup
Leaving paradise (Cuthona ornata)
Purple waves (Goniobranchus rufomaculatus)
Hut or hat
The Queen (Chromodoris elisabethina)
LCD skin
Foreplay in colours (Cuthona sibogae)
Ta dum, ta dum, ta dum
Amazing grazing
Japanese whaler (using public Australian shoreline as playing ground)
Up-winds
Boomerang
Rockingbirds
Peekaboo
Fighting over food
Fish finder
Lord Dracula
Burton's Snake-lizard (Lialis burtonis)
On the dole
Snap the fish
Marine Killing Games - Harpooning in Australian Waters
Mountains
Fisherman blues
Too big to swallow
Red eyed
Nothing beats a little scratch
Friendly submarines
T-time
Migaloo's brother
Waving whale
Slap them!
Australian interpretation of laws (they only apply to other people as no prosecution is feared) and a whale's reaction. It used to be illegal to approach whales and there were minimum distances to maintain. Both boats approached the whales and deliberately put themselves into their paths and actually cornered them. The whale got visibly angry and slapped its tail next to the boats a few times.
Gulp of air
Rollers
What are you staring at?
Sunset purple
Base Jumping
Butterflies
Spinal twist
Angry
Come back!
Unleashed
G-12 vanities
Here comes the groom
On a catwalk
Huddled and crying
Peace
Sitting it out
Cloud Cruisin'
Charon's bridge
Skywards
Smokin' (Plocamopherus imperialis)
Cockatoo (Finger Dragonet, Dactylopus dactylopus)
[Also have a look at my video of this hunting and feeding individual. The embedded video above does not seem to work on mobile devices. Here is the youtube address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOu_E2t0itI ]
Make-up
Dinosaur
Flower yoke
Wreath weaving
Water pearls
Generation Red
Urn reflections
Living fossil
Brothas
Blackbird
Burning heavenly
Stubble valley
Out of balance