Gallery - Australia
Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. It's about the same size as the 48 mainland states of the USA and 50 per cent larger than Europe, but has the lowest population density in the world - only two people per square kilometre.
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Western Australia
- Victoria
- Tasmania
- South Australia
- Queensland
- Northern Territory
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Nudibranch
by Fergy
Here are a few pickies from a dive I did around Orpheus Island on Sunday. Orpheus Island is part of the Palm Island group, off Townsville, QLD. (Halgerda sp. - Wandy)
Lucky the Green Turtle
by octopulse
Taken off Townsville, QLD at the Great Barrier Reef. Used an Olympus c8080 in a PT23 housing. Photocomp December '04 - Open
Baby Port Jackson
This little PJ pup was part of a pack of 15-20 little babies in Watsons Bay, Sydney. We observed them for over a month in September 2001, before they moved out into deeper water and finally disappeared. Photocomp December '04 - Open
New kid on the block
This is a new discovery from Sydney waters. The little fish, a Sydney Pygmy Pipehorse (Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri), is very hard to photograph. This is a 1:1 shot with a Nikonos III.
You're being watched!
Taken on the left-hand-side of Camp Cove, NSW over very silty, barren ground with a 1:1 framer on a Nikonos III. Photocomp December '04 - Open
Gotcha!
We were nightdiving under the Kurnell refinery jetty, NSW and these little spotted Dumpling Squids were all over the place! I have never seen so many in a night, and many were feeding on the hinge-beak shrimps. Photocomp December '04 - Open
Tiger anemone
I took this image off the deep end off Fishrock, NSW in 34 meters of water and this was the only one I liked from an entire roll of Velvia.
Bayliss Shell
by ron.j
This photo was taken at Fish Reef, Sydney. The Bayliss shells are all laying their eggs at the moment we don't often see them laying at Fish Reef this was the only one. Photocomp December '04 - Open
One-spot Puller
by ron.j
This photo was taken at Barren's Hut, Sydney. Visibility was 4-5m at best, but there were hundreds of these guys all hanging around together ready to start their breeding cycle. Photocomp December '04 - Open
Meet 'Ernst
by John Natoli
On a day of very poor viz, the best subject to photograph was one of the only things I could see - my Buddy Ernst. Photocomp December '04 - Open
Crayfish
by robin
Taken in the marine reserve in Bicheno, Tasmania with a Canon S40. Photocomp December '04 - Open
Spinecheek Anemonefish
by Fergy
A few pickies of a cute Spinecheek on a reef trip off Townsville, QLD I did last week. Taken at Davies Reef.
Spinecheek Anemonefish
by Fergy
A few pickies of a cute Spinecheek on a reef trip off Townsville, QLD I did last week. Taken at Davies Reef.
Spinecheek Anemonefish
by Fergy
A few pickies of a cute Spinecheek on a reef trip off Townsville, QLD I did last week. Taken at Davies Reef.
Anemone in the Tamar River
by Benita
Close-up of anemone, taken in the Tamar River, Tasmania. Photocomp December '04 - Open
