Saltliquid
New member
There have been roughly three trips since the last time we promoted the south east Queensland aquarium society on here and it's been very cold on the trips.
One trip in the water was absolutely freezing, first ice cream headache from free diving in years.
Reminded me of a youthful past at Ceduna scallop hunting and Esperance scuba diving, very cold spots, not unlike one of our more recent collecting trips that was the first one of our trips that we show our legal coral collecting.
One of the trips was in the freezing rain and wind getting into unseasonably warm water and very clear, the other two were on beautiful sunny days and the water was absolutely freezing.
With the links we have at hand on satellite ocean currents and their temps we finally found a day watching the satellite feed when the warmer and clearer current had bent into the shore via satellite from Frazer isl to the tweed river, it was raining and windy, but you don't waste that kind of info from the links, we had a ball.
The species collected on the trips are for clubbies there on the day and requested species from clubbies who are not able to go.
These are just a couple of the pics from those three trips.
An olivaceus out of the two, this one was for me, than I changed my mind and gave it another club member.
Always lots of istiblennius lawn mower blennies where we go to get some.
Purple acropora stag before it was collected, kitiara, the one that wanted it says it is booming, when corals do not come from pristine conditions, they do far better!
Some acanthella sponge collected, one of the few local common sponges that do very well in an aquarium and multiply helping with waste management of your water.
Just a few of the many peppermint shrimp collected on a trip designed around them and several other specific aquarium species from the same locations.
That's all for this bit of aandtsociety promotional pics ,hopefully you enjoyed seeing these few of many as much as we enjoy exploring the wonderful Q south east coastline.
One trip in the water was absolutely freezing, first ice cream headache from free diving in years.
Reminded me of a youthful past at Ceduna scallop hunting and Esperance scuba diving, very cold spots, not unlike one of our more recent collecting trips that was the first one of our trips that we show our legal coral collecting.
One of the trips was in the freezing rain and wind getting into unseasonably warm water and very clear, the other two were on beautiful sunny days and the water was absolutely freezing.
With the links we have at hand on satellite ocean currents and their temps we finally found a day watching the satellite feed when the warmer and clearer current had bent into the shore via satellite from Frazer isl to the tweed river, it was raining and windy, but you don't waste that kind of info from the links, we had a ball.
The species collected on the trips are for clubbies there on the day and requested species from clubbies who are not able to go.
These are just a couple of the pics from those three trips.
An olivaceus out of the two, this one was for me, than I changed my mind and gave it another club member.
Always lots of istiblennius lawn mower blennies where we go to get some.
Purple acropora stag before it was collected, kitiara, the one that wanted it says it is booming, when corals do not come from pristine conditions, they do far better!
Some acanthella sponge collected, one of the few local common sponges that do very well in an aquarium and multiply helping with waste management of your water.
Just a few of the many peppermint shrimp collected on a trip designed around them and several other specific aquarium species from the same locations.
That's all for this bit of aandtsociety promotional pics ,hopefully you enjoyed seeing these few of many as much as we enjoy exploring the wonderful Q south east coastline.
