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Reef Scene -  Temperate Reef
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Diver photographing colourful sea sponges and seaweeds decorating the pylons under Blairgowrie Jetty. Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver exploring temperate deep water Sponge Garden. Bicheno, Tasmania, Southern Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver viewing gas filled floats and strap like fronds of Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera). Also known as Strap Kelp. Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver exploring temperate deep water reef comprised of Whip Corals, Sponges, Zoanthids and Anemones. Bicheno, Tasmania, Southern Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver exploring temperate deep water reef comprised of Whip Corals, Sponges, Zoanthids and Anemones. Bicheno, Tasmania, Southern Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver exploring Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) forest. Also known as Strap Kelp. Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver exploring temperate deep water reef comprised of Whip Corals, Sponges, Zoanthids and Anemones. Bicheno, Tasmania, Southern Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver exploring temperate deep water reef comprised of Whip Corals, Sponges, Zoanthids and Anemones. Bicheno, Tasmania, Southern Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver exploring temperate deep water reef comprised of Whip Corals, Sponges, Zoanthids and Anemones. Bicheno, Tasmania, Southern Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver exploring temperate deep water reef comprised of Whip Corals, Sponges, Zoanthids and Anemones. Bicheno, Tasmania, Southern Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver exploring temperate deep water reef comprised of Whip Corals, Sponges, Zoanthids and Anemones. Bicheno, Tasmania, Southern Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Underwater photographer exploring underneath Port Hughes Jetty or Pier, with pilings covered and encrusted with temperate sponges and corals. South Australia.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
Underwater photographer exploring underneath Port Hughes Jetty or Pier, with pilings covered and encrusted with temperate sponges and corals. South Australia.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
Yellowtail Scad (Trachurus novaezelandiae), schooling underneath Port Hughes Jetty or Pier, with pylons covered and encrusted with temperate sponges and corals. Port Hughes, South Australia.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
Jetty or Pier Pylons covered and encrusted with a wide variety of temperate and cold-water sponges and corals. Port Hughes, South Australia.
© Michael Patrick O'Neill / OceanwideImages.com
Temperate reef scene, Sea Sponges and Gorgonian Corals. Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve, situated off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com
Crinoid Feather stars (Cenolia trichoptera). Found from Fremantle, WA, to Byron Bay, NSW, and around Tas. Photo taken off Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Scuba Diver viewing male Giant Crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas), also known as King Crab, in Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) forest. Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Shaw's Cowfish (Aracana aurita), male, amongst kelp. Also known as Boxfish. Found throughout the temperate waters of southern Australia, including Tasmania. Photo taken off Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Weedy Seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus). Found in temperate coastal waters of Australia, from Geraldton, WA, to Port Stephens, NSW, and around Tas. Photo taken off Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia. Endemic to Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Weedy Seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus). Found in temperate coastal waters of Australia, from Geraldton, WA, to Port Stephens, NSW, and around Tas. Photo taken off Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia. Endemic to Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Blackfish, or Luderick (Girella tricuspidata) and Drummer (Kyphosus sp.), feeding beneath a crashing coastal wave. Photo taken near Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Moonlighter, or Six-banded Coral Fish (Tilodon sexfasciatus). Found in temperate waters of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. Photo taken at Edithburg, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Moonlighter, or Six-banded Coral Fish (Tilodon sexfasciatus), juvenile. Found in temperate waters of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. Photo taken at Edithburg, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Pygmy Leatherjacket (Branchaluteres jacksonianus). Found on sheltered to moderately exposed reefs from Lancelin, WA, to Moreton Bay, Qld, including Tas. Photo taken at York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Tunicate Coralfish, or Western Talma (Chelmonops curiosus), juvenile. Found from Shark Bay, Western Australia, to Robe, South Australia. Photo taken at Edithburgh, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Tunicate Coralfish, or Western Talma (Chelmonops curiosus), juvenile. Found from Shark Bay, Western Australia, to Robe, South Australia. Photo taken at Edithburgh, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Tunicate Coralfish, or Western Talma (Chelmonops curiosus). Found from Shark Bay, Western Australia, to Robe, South Australia. Photo taken at Edithburgh, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Tunicate Coralfish, or Western Talma (Chelmonops curiosus), juvenile. Found from Shark Bay, Western Australia, to Robe, South Australia. Photo taken at Edithburgh, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Moonlighter or Six-banded Coralfish (Tilodon sexfasciatus), amongst a variety of sea alga. Photo taken at Edithburg, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
A Tunicate Coralfish or Western Talma (Chelmonops curiosus), swims past exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and acsidians that are attached to the timber pylons or pillars of Edithburgh jetty, situated on the York Peninsula, South Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
A Moonlighter or Six-banded Coralfish (Tilodon sexfasciatus), swims past exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and acsidians that are attached to the timber pylons or pillars of Edithburgh jetty, situated on the York Peninsula, South Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and acsidians attached to the timber pylons or pillars of Edithburgh jetty, decorate temperate seascape. York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
A Tunicate Coralfish or Western Talma (Chelmonops curiosus), swims past exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and acsidians that are attached to the timber pylons or pillars of Edithburgh jetty, situated on the York Peninsula, South Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and acsidians attached to the timber pylons or pillars of Edithburgh jetty, decorate temperate seascape. York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and acsidians attached to the timber pylons or pillars of Edithburgh jetty, decorate temperate seascape. York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and acsidians attached to the timber pylons or pillars of Edithburgh jetty, decorate temperate seascape. York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and acsidians attached to the timber pylons or pillars of Edithburgh jetty, decorate temperate seascape. York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and acsidians attached to the timber pylons or pillars of Edithburgh jetty, decorate temperate seascape. York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates and acsidians attached to the timber pylons or pillars of Edithburgh jetty, decorate temperate seascape. York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Exquisitely coloured sponges, tunicates, tube worms and algas attached to the timber pylons or pillars of Flinders pier or jetty. Western Port Bay, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Jetty Pylon, heavily encrusted in Sea Sponges, Bryozoans and Sea Tunicates. Photo was taken at Edithburgh Jetty, York Peninsula, South Australia, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Sun rays filter through the surface on to the pylons of Blairgowrie Jetty, decorated in colourful sea sponges and sea weed. Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Sun rays filter through the surface on to the pylons of Blairgowrie Jetty, decorated in colourful sea sponges and sea weed. Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Sun rays filter through the surface on to the pylons of Blairgowrie Jetty, decorated in colourful sea sponges and sea weed. Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com
Colourful sea sponges and sea weeds decorate the pylons and cross beams under Blairgowrie Jetty. Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com