Take a trip through the Crerran narrows...
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 Moon jellys are everywhere as we approach the narrows from the west. |
 There are so many jellys that in one place a column swirls above us and blocks out the light. |
 Kelp in the narrows is flattened out in the current.. |
 Urchins (we see only small ones) feed on the kelp. |
 A kelp stipe exposed by the current.. |
 Life around the kelp - first a topshell |
 ...then a spidercrab, with camouflage, |
 ...a lions mane jelly hunts in the water above the kelp, |
 a ciona sea squirt is found down among the kelp stipes, |
 and coryphella nudibranchs are common here too. |
 Then we find the bridge support, which is teeming with life and colour, from these stars |
 these anenomes, |
 this sea lemon, |
 and this sponge. |
 Amongst the cobbles on the sea bed you can find painted gobies, |
 horse mussels, |
 serpula worms, |
 and shore crabs. |
 On the sides of the channel there are dead mans fingers and other soft corals, |
 hermit crabs are everywhere, |
 finally we exit through a forest of sea whips. |
Hope you enjoyed it! Who says that you need to dive a coral reef to see colourful life. |
© copyright Lewis Bambury 2008
