"Dragon in light".

Dragons in Flight. Its a very unusual situation to get two weedy seadragons in the one photo - at least its very unusual for me to do so!

"Short Tail Weedy Seadragon". This weedy seadragon has had its tail bitten off by something when it was younger but that hasn't stopped it successfully breeding - its eggs have all hatched but you can still see where they were attached.
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Flasher Scorpionfish

Curious Leather Jacket.

Stingray with penetrating stare . . .

Colour and Motion symmetry

Red Lined Flabellina. Taken November 7 2011. Blairgowrie Marina Port Phillip Bay.

Who are you looking at? Leafy Seadragon taken off Kangaroo Island in South Australia - very interactive and interested seadragon who kept watching to see what I was doing.
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The Southern Hulafish (Trachinops caudimaculatus) is a temperate water fish species is a member of the family Plesiopidae which includes the ‘Blue Devils’ and ‘Hulafishes’.

Calamari Swimming in formation -

Gentle Giant - taken while free diving. Smooth Rays can grow to 4.3 meters long and 2.1 meters wide and 350 kg but are incredibly inquisitive animals. This one played with me for almost 25 minutes - and was as interactive as a puppy!

Hypselodoris bennetti, Bare Island
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It is a widely held misconception that Great White sharks only breach in South Africa. Freckles is a 4m male who is an aerial specialist attacking baits at up to 56 K's an hour to enable him to launch his entire body out of the water.

Solitary Grey Nurse Shark

Mantis shrimp ready to take me on!

Australasian Gannet. "What are you doing down there"? Taken while on snorkel/free diving.
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Snapping shrimp - true it snapped me! Alpheus sp.

Ceratosoma brevicaudatum. Fly Point, Nelson Bay
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Flathead sitting still in lettuce seaweed.

Sad Eyes

Smile !
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Small snapper shrimp; Alpheus novaezealandiae. Snapping shrimps or pistol shrimps are immediately distinguished from other families by having one claw much larger than the other, the larger claw cylindrical and with a parrot-beak-like finger.

Chromodoris tasmaniensis, Bare Island
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First attempt at u/w photography, and one of my favourite little critters, Weedy Sea Dragon.
Photo was taken at Flinders Pier in Victoria, Australia.

Smooth Ray Bicheno, Tasmania, Australi

Pot Bellied Seahorse
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