Good enough to eat - Dendronephthya australis #marineexplorer
After our recent surveys at Bare Island we checked out the nearby soft #coral population and found many big, healthy colonies like this one. Cauliflower anyone?

Striate anglerfish favourite attire #marineexplorer
Antennarius striatus can be brown and shaggy, black, white, orange or yellow. Brown and shaggy seems to be their favourite though... https://flic.kr/p/2ohVa5S

I felt like I was riding in a warm bath this morning - note, this is NOT a good thing! #Sydney #summer #humidity #marineexplorer

The Hawkesbury river, just north of Sydney, is a magnificent sandstone-lined estuary. It has many cliffs, flats and interesting nooks along its 120 km length... this is just one of them. Our family had it to ourselves for the morning. #marineexplorer https://flic.kr/p/2odvMho

Reef Life Survey - Structure from Motion model of transect #marineexplorer
After our survey of Bare Island east yesterday I spent 15 mins running over the transect with the 3D capture camera. The resulting orthomosaic of almost 1000 photos is in the lower part of this image (black background), together with a couple of examples of views from the 3D model (white backgrounds) #science #3D

Tasmanian short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus) #marineexplorer
We watched this well-fed #echidna demolish an old rotten stump for several minutes in search of ants. This subspecies, T. a. setosus, is found on Tasmania and some islands in Bass Strait, and looks larger (or perhaps more fluffy!) and lighter in colour than the ones in NSW. Photo: Bruny Island

A few more shots from our weekend #bushwalk on Kunanyi (Mt Wellington) including the #Tasmania waratah, dragon heath and colourful lichens #marineexplorer

Over the last decade I've built up an online #photo #library for the use of #scientists and others. All of my 12000+ photos are identified, located and downloadable at full resolution with #creativecommons non-commercial with attribution licenses. You can find them by searching in Flickr with the #marineexplorer tag, or by album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwturnbull/albums

The Gap, Sydney #marineexplorer #coastline #structurefrommotion
Interactive #3D model is here: https://skfb.ly/oARto