The Southbank Dive Shop near our apartment took us on a dive trip to the Solitary Islands, a 5 1/2 hour drive south of Brisbane in the state of New South Wales. Dive Quest was the local dive shop in Mullaway that took us out to the islands and gave us accomodation. Our dive master from Brisbane, Darren, brought along his underwater camera and took these pictures while we were diving !

North Solitary Island. This is where we did most of the diving.

Here we are !

A couple of clown fish hide in an anenome

We're not too sure who this guy is, sitting on the bottom.

A 'grumpy' fish peeks out from his hole. They build these deep holes that they sink into when you get too close.

A black egg cowrie. If you touch it, it retracts it's covering revealing a white shell.

Little black fish with little white dots. They range in size from 1-4cm tall. There are about a dozen in this picture - can you find them ?

A little anenome fish defending his anenome.

An Urchin in front of some anenomes.

A, er, red fish. yeah - that's it.

A red stonefish, also known as a scorpion fish. Touching one of these could ruin your day.

Follow the leader !

All photos on this page are copyright (c)1999 Darren Stacey.

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