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This guide is designed to showcase some of South Australia’s best shore diving, exhibiting SA’s underwater fauna. It provides a useful resource for underwater photographers and recreational divers. Some of these creatures are common, others extremely rare:
* * * * = very common
* * = common but may be elusive
* = extremely rare or hard to find
Thank you to Phil Mercurio, Simon Cribbes.................... for contributing images to this guide.
South Australia is a world class diving destination most famous for it’s Leafy seadragons, Great white sharks and giant, mating cuttlefish. There is however, much more to see: reefs, muck, caves and ship wrecks; some of historical importance and others have been sunk specifically for divers. The shore diving is easy and varied, mostly jetties. The water temperature ranges from 24°C in mid-summer to 10°C in winter.
This guide is designed to showcase some of South Australia’s best shore diving, exhibiting SA’s underwater fauna. It provides a useful resource for underwater photographers and recreational divers. Some of these creatures are common, others extremely rare:
* * * * = very common
* * = common but may be elusive
* = extremely rare or hard to find
Thank you to Phil Mercurio, Simon Cribbes.................... for contributing images to this guide.
Leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques)
Photographed at Rapid Bay Jetty * * *
Short-headed seahorse (Hippocampus breviceps)
Photographed at Edithburgh Jetty * * *
Southern pygmy pipehorse (Acentronura australe)
Photographed at Edithburgh Jetty *
Gulf pipefish (Stigmatopora narinosa)
Photographed at Port Hughes Jetty * * * * *
Gulf pipefish (Stigmatopora narinosa)
Photographed at Port Victoria Jetty * * * * *
Horseshoe Leatherjacket (Meuschenia hippocrepis)
Photographed at Rapid Bay Jetty * * * * *
Western buffalo bream (Kyphosus cornelii)
Photographed at Wool Bay * * * * *
Mosaic leatherjacket juv. (Eubalichthys mosaicus)
Photographed at Pt Hughes Jetty * * * * *
Threadfin leatherjacket (Arotrolepis filicauda)
Photographed at Pt Hughes Jetty * * * *
Longsnout bearish (Pentaceropsis recurvirostris)
Photographed at Rapid Bay Jetty * * * *
Magpie Perch (Cheilodactylus nigripes)
Photographed at Rapid Bay Jetty * * * * *
Nudibranch (Flabellina poenicia ?)
Photographed at Port Hughes Jetty * * *