After moving to the Sunshine Coast at the end of last year, I finally went for my first dive in the Gold Coast Seaway in 2011. I heard the conditions had been good for the past two weeks and was finally able to make it down for a night dive just as rain was moving in and the visibility was expected to drop in the coming days.
I've had more spectacular dives critter-wise at the south west wall but there was still plenty to see and the vis made it fairly easy to make photos.
There weren't many octopus out hunting and I couldn't find any of the resident seahorses but there were quite a few mating sea hares and groups of flutemouths.
Here's a few of my best shots:
I find these slender flutemouths hard to photograph, but got the eye in focus in this shot
mating sea hares - Aplysiidae species
love the colours of this urchin but could only get so close with the 60mm macro lens
an Obscure Hypselodoris (nudibranch)
A juvenile Toby (not sure which species) hides flat against the top of a rock
Movement alerted me to this very well camoflagued crab
another type of sea hare - Pleurobranchus peroni
A Trinchesia yamasui (nudibranch) with crab in the background.
a small anemone
