DON'T SCUTTLE THE CUTTLE!
In June this year I spent some time with the Cuttlefish of the upper Spencer Gulf, near Whyalla in South Australia for Travelling in Australia magazine and the South Australian Tourist Commission. These amazing creatures aggregate here in mid-Winter to mate and lay their eggs amongst the shallow reefs of an isolated stretch of rocky coast.

BHP have proposed building a desalnation plant to aid in the expansion of their Olympic Dam Uranium Mine in an area near to the Cuttlefish aggregation site. Concerns have been raised by visiting scientists from both Australia and abroad, that the hypersaline outfall from the proposed plant will impact on this unique yearly event, the only known Giant Cuttlefish breeding aggregation in the World.

If you would like more information about the proposed plant, the issue was recently featured on the ABC's Catalyst program, and the story can be viewed here.

So cuttlefish are in the news at the moment... one of the images I captured on that shoot features on the cover of the October 2009 Issue of Australian Geographic magazine.