60. UW PHOTO JOURNALISM 1965-1995

  

Beach meshing net - not a perfect anti-shark solution.

Blue groper - not allowed for spear fishermen (since 1967)

Blue groper -  New South Wales variety.

                                    Southern Right Whale  -   in Sydney Harbour 1966

                                        Exmouth whale shark - same shark in both pictures.

59. RON TAYLOR (Under construction)

 

December 1967 at Seal Rocks area NSW.  Ron filming with non reflex 16mm Bolex - his standard unit for The Shark Hunters, Slaughter at Saumarez, Skindiving Paradise, Surf Scene and the Innerspace TV series.

Ron filming with 35mm Cameflex. The Swain Reefs (1967) months of guaranteed work for a university in Belgium with another cameraman both shooting a 35mm educational series.

Ron Taylor filming with his Bolex H 16 (non reflex cine camera) in 1963 when age 29.

58. CAPRICORN AND BUNKER GROUP

Wilson Island

Northern side of Great Kepple Island had (or has) this magnificent coral formation.
Fresh water from the flooding Fitzroy River destroyed coral in this area.

Nor' West Island sea shells

 Manta Ray at Lady Elliott Island

 Stokesi are the largest sea snakes, and very dangerous.

North Reef lighthouse view 1968 when it was being manned by a team of three.

 North Reef

North Reef lighthouse when it was manned (1968) fish eye view.

 Lamont Reef - note how one specie of coral is protecting itself from being covered.

Lady Musgrave Island lagoon (1981)

Painted lobster, Nor' West Island (1963) - Ron Taylor took this picture with my camera.

 Typical-sized Coral Trout, Fitzroy Reef (1964) when we were aboard Riversong for a 10-day trip.

 48.5 pound Blue spot.  (1964), the spearfishing record was 50 pounds at the time.

 Riversong (1964) the now legendary fishing boat which helped Captain Wally Muller into history. 

Shipwreck (1964) - the letter M from Cooma.

              Sea Hunt  charter boat (1975)   

Stokesi sea snake, Fitzroy Reef area (1964) - photo by Ron Taylor.

Spearfisherman Ron Taylor  working aboard Riversong as a guest (1963)

Captain Ron Isbell about to dive.  Heron Island (1974)

Beautiful film by Ron Taylor (1963) in the Heron Island area.

Heron Island (1963) when scuba was new and spear fishing still encouraged.  (Ron Taylor 16mm frame).  Diver is Alan Power, a professional underwater tour guide in Vanuatu, today.

 

 Tropic Rover at GKI  (1986) with diving companion Chrissie Craker.

Seaplane ride to Lady Musgrave Island (1986)
Apology for poor picture quality - from VHS tape copy.

57. ELLISON REEF with Captain Perry Harvey. (Mission Beach) circa 1995

Arriving at Mission Beach, Queensland we visited a local friend, Captain Perry Harvey who had a popular day-trip tourist charter boat servicing Beaver Cay Reef, M/V Friendship.

The year before starfish killed the entire reef.  Perfect weather, low, low tide at midday. No breeze.
MV Friendship wth Capt. Perry Harvey.

The following day was a private charter on the lowest tide of the year which would be at midday, (and by chance with a blue sky and no breeze) so we were invited to come aboard for a visit to Ellison Reef a pristine reef not normally visited by tour groups. Less than two years afterwards the entire reef would be destroyed by Crown of Thorns starfish.

Updated by JHH 21 April 2023 
 

56. CoT STARFISH CONTROL 1969

Mission Beach in North Queensland has the GBR reef day-trip destination of Beaver Cay offshore.  Local charter boat owner and captain, the late Perry Harvey took this picture of several days catch and removal.  CoT were left to dry on the sand cay - a guarantee of their destruction in the late 1980s.   Perry Harvey was regularly quoted in documentaries, TV News and by the late Dr Robert Endean.

Syringe to inject formaldehyde individually (1969)

Marine scientist the late Dr Barry R. Wilson of Perth Western Australia, in Guam 1969.

16mm film by John Harding, Guam (1969)