Beating the heat

It's still impressively warm here at the moment and so last weekend we got down to Clovelly and, despite the warnings of stingers in the water, we piled in for a snorkel. The water was warm and clear at last and no sign of the bluebottles either.

 Clovelly's friendly Blue Groper

Common Stingaree 

Tarwhine (with Bream and Trevally)

Clovelly Bay is the territory of a lovely big Blue Groper who is a lot more friendly than his neighbours round the corner in Gordons Bay. As soon as you get down under the water he rushes over to see you and he actually seems to enjoy human contact and is even happy to be stroked. At one stage I was down trying to photograph a bream when I felt a nudge in my side. Mr Groper wasn't happy that I was ignoring him and had swum over to give me a friendly biff!

White Ear Parma 

White Ear Parma (juv.) with it's fluorescent blue markings

Bream (and who's that coming to say hello?!)