Babinda Boulders Devils Couldron 1.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-25 | First of two videos showing the underwater terrain which has killed over a dozen swimmers over the years at this beautifully sculptured natural waterway.
Best way to see Manta Rays Chris Jones 2016-06-11 | Without bubbles, you can glide into a cleaning station like a big ugly fish and the mantas just don't care.
Eye on the Reef Sightings App Chris Jones 2015-01-26 | A quick run down of how to use the Sightings App to record Crown of thorns starfish.
Coral Spawn 2014 Chris Jones 2014-12-15 | Low resolution version of my coral spawning videos from 2014. Stupid iMovie refuses to export as HD. YouTube also says it has audio/video sync issues.
Blue Spot Stingray Sex - Turtle Bay post-Yasi Chris Jones 2013-02-05 | Well after a quick search on YouTube, I have discovered this is far from a world first ! Just goes to show how technology has created legions of underwater photographers such that even rare observations are being snapped by easy to use digital cameras. Remember the days when you had to understand F-stops and Shutter Speeds and strobe sync timing and then only 36 frames which you couldn't learn about your mistakes until at least later that day at the photo lab... Now anyone can do it :-)
Migaloo the White Whale Encounter Chris Jones 2012-09-24 | A one in a million chance encounter with Migaloo the white Humpback Whale as he leaves the Great Barrier Reef, migrating back to Antarctica after spending the worst of the southern hemisphere winter off Port Douglas. Migaloo is frequently seen, in season, by Wavelength: http://www.wavelength.com.au
Turtle Research Low Isles 2010.m4v Chris Jones 2010-09-30 | Like being back in Darwin doing Turtle research.
Fluffy on Ultralight.m4v Chris Jones 2010-09-01 | Fluffy finds himself like a fish out of water, up in the air in an ultralight zooming around the coastline of Port Douglas. Funny music timed to the events and subtitled with thoughts at the time, most people get a giggle out of this.
Monster Grouper Attacks Shark Chris Jones 2010-07-29 | 20th May 2008Daisy the Malabar Cod eating a large male Wobbegong Shark at the Whaler Point site.
Peacock Flounder Long Chase.AVI Chris Jones 2010-06-17 | The most common of the Flounder species, the Peacock Flounder relies on its highly modified body shape and pattern to conceal itself in the sediment. If that fails, they can move at a good pace to a new location. Video taken on snorkel by Fluffy.
Turtle Eats Seagrass Woody Isle.AVI Chris Jones 2010-06-17 | There are patches of various sea grass species around the Port Douglas & Daintree coastline but this little patch is within the mangrove maze of Woody Isle. A juvenile Green Turtle was have a munch in this case. Video taken on snorkel by Fluffy.
Stingray in Mangroves.AVI Chris Jones 2010-06-17 | This common species of Stingray, usually called the White Tailed or White Spotted stingray, is cruising amongst the prop roots of Rhizophora stylosa mangrove trees at Woody Isle. Video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones.
Launching Ella.m4v Chris Jones 2010-06-16 | The very talented and all-round nice guy Chris finally launches his hand crafted sailing boat "Ella" into the Port Douglas Inlet.
Eagle Rays, Sharks, Fish & Coral Secret Spot.AVI Chris Jones 2010-06-16 | Just one of those rare places where it all goes off together. Probably one of the top snorkelling spots in the entire Great Barrier Reef. There was also several turtles and lots more bigger fish just out of shot which when combined with Eagle Rays, Whaler Sharks and fantastic coral covered in schools of small fish make this one of the best snorkeling in the world. Video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones.
Jo Catches Her First Fish.AVI Chris Jones 2010-05-02 | Saturday 1st May 2010Finally, we get to go fishing with the famous Bill of Trinity Sportsfishing. With Mum along for the ride, we get a Trevelly on the line and Jo gets her first fish in her life.
Dugong Mother & Calf at Low Isles.AVI Chris Jones 2010-03-11 | Rarely seen at Low Isles, this mother and calf were lucky to be seen on an exceptional clear water day.
Barracuda Face Hover 2 Snorkeling Great Barrier Reef.MOV Chris Jones 2010-02-27 | Now and then, a lone Great Barracuda leaves the school and goes a bit senile - hanging around large marine animals or boats - these can be approached and even "tamed" to the point of being touched and hand fed.
Barry & Me Dance.MOV Chris Jones 2010-02-27 | Playing with a Giant Barracuda on Great Barrier Reef. They do not attack people if your not trying to hand feed them or get their attention deliberately.
Tablelands Devastation.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-26 | Shifting Baselines and Perception of Land Beauty. The Atherton Tablelands are a tourist attraction because of rolling hills of green pasture dotted with cows and criss-crossed by fences. This landscape used to be Rainforest. Its like draining the wetlands of Kakadu and having canals with boats around cottages instead. And that becoming a tourist attraction ! Our perception of what is beauty in a landscape has evolved to just accept that "beautiful" means a destroyed ecosystem. With exotic/invasive plants & animals, parceled off into squares of biological deserts mocking the wonders that they replaced, we are using bulldozers, chainsaws and a need to feed an ever increasing human population to alter our perception of what is normal, acceptable, natural or beautiful.
Manta Huge 1.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-26 | What can I say. Sensational ! Charismatic megafauna over coral reef and you cant get much more charismatic than a 4 metre wide Manta Ray.Video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones.
Wavelength leaving Port.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-25 | Wavelength is the only boat founded by a marine biologist that follows a strict ethos of minimal reef impact including taking the SMALLEST groups to the reef, pure snorkeling (no scuba divers allowed) and all day biology education. The employ more marine biologists than even the biggest boats and are the second oldest outer reef company in Port Douglas with more sites to choose from than both other companies combined that visit Opal Reef.
Hawksbill Feed2 March 07.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-25 | When Hawksbill Turtles find a good patch of algae to eat, they let little stop them getting at it. In this case, a hard coral is having its branches snapped off vigorously to gain access.Video taken on scuba in just 4 metres of water by Chris Fluffy Jones.
Hawksbill Feed March 07.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-25 | When Hawksbill Turtles find a good patch of algae to eat, they let little stop them getting at it. In this case, a hard coral is having its branches snapped off vigorously to gain access.Video taken on scuba in just 4 metres of water by Chris Fluffy Jones.
Woody Isle Cleanup Epaulette Net Comment.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-25 | Tangaroa Blue organised a clean up of Woody Isle and this is one of the ghost nets found on the southern side as well as an example of the sort of wildlife that can be killed by these death traps. Video by Chris fluffy Jones
Babinda Boulders Devil Couldron 2.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-25 | Second video showing the actual couldren I guess where those people who died, started their swim.
Chris Scratches Turtle 1.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-25 | Giving a juvenile Green Turtle at Low Isles a scratch which they usually love to have if you dont spook them.
Calm 4 Mile Beach Sunset.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-25 | A Wet Season sunset on Four Mile Beach Port Douglas.
Birthday Cake Stuffup 2007.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-25 | The taking of photos during this birthday cake cutting excercise was thwarted by Tanya's inability to operate the point-n-shoot camera. However the resulting video is rather amusing.
Glassout Driftline 10 March 09 Mobile.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-25 | On glass out days in the Wet Season, debri from the coastal runoff can be gently pushed by tide into long floating drifts of sea-weed, leaves, trees, rubbish etc that can stretch for miles and provide an interesting habitat for critters like juvenile fish.
Chris Daihatsu Shes A Beauty Mate.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-25 | Funny funny stuff ! My beloved Daihatsu F55 Ute has been sitting in my brother's back yard for about 6 years. On a flying visit back home, we towed it under the house, fixed the wiring that the dog chewed up and got her started and running. This is me playing up to the camera after taking her for a spin down the road and back.
Silvertip Shark Snorkel Osprey Reef.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-23 | This rarely seen and very timid open ocean shark species is difficult to get got photos of. To get this video, I moved very silently and smoothly on snorkel with no sudden movements so as to to drift/sink closer, timing it for one the sharks turns back toward me.This Silver Tip Shark was shot at Osprey Reef off the eastern continental shelf of Australia.Video taken on snorkely by Chris Fluffy Jones.
Eagle Ray 2 Great Barrier Reef.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-22 | What a cute face ! This spotted Eagle Ray was seen from the surface by everyone and scuba was used to capture this video which shows a nice shark bite as well. Note that at 15 metres, there is little else to see and in fact, groups of divers can be seen in the background swimming over grey sand and rubble while all the life is just above them in the shallows.
Turtle Hawksbill Deep Dive Snorkeling Tips.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-22 | Whilst turtles are more commonly seen in shallower water because 1) They breath air and 2) Juveniles like this eat mostly algae which needs shallow sunlit waters, this young Hawksbill was spotted snoozing at 15 metres.Note that at just 15 metres on the Great Barrier Reef there is virtually nothing to see but sand. The great barrier reef diving myth is that you have to dive to see coral when in truth, coral is solar powered and all the associated life with it can be seen on snorkel in the first few metres of depth.Video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones for snorkeling tips.
Turtle Shark Attacked 2.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-21 | This is the same turtle in the other video titled "Turtle Shark Attacked" but now you can really see how difficult it is for her to move. Our proximity has caused her to take a panic breath at the surface - exhaling before reaching the surface and frantically
Turtle Handfeed Stick Algae 2.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-21 | Feeding a green turtle some filamentous algae that is growing on a piece of dead coral skeleton. Video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones.
Turtle Shark Attacked.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-21 | A green sea turtle with very fresh shark attack wounds. The left flipper has several slicing puncture wounds with the tip hanging on by the tough skin. The right flipper is gone, having been severed at the joint by a large shark bite. The turtle is still adapting to his loss having trouble moving through the water. Video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones.
Daisy Eats Wobbegong Arsistocat Whaler 2.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-20 | We love Daisy ! This shows the incredible eating ability of cods in general, in this case a Malabar Cod known as Daisy, that has attacked, suffocated and soon after this video, eaten an entire adult and very large Wobbegong Shark at the skanky site "Whaler Point". Giant grouper versus shark attack !Video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones.
Humpback Whales the Best Enounter.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-19 | Probably the best Humpback Whale combination Ive ever seen. Two adults full breach in the near distance while another cruises alongside Poseidon taking a breath.
Octopus Saga 3.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-18 | This is for you Dave. A nice sequence showing a reef octopus going through several colour and skin texture changes as he is photographed by Dave Miller and myself.Video taken on snorkel by Chris fluffy Jones.
Trigger Eats Clam Puffer Moray Cave.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-17 | A crazy collection of fish showing weird behaviour. Firstly, a Titon Triggerfish has chiseled out of the reef a small clam and has taken it into a cave to eat which you can see it trying to do. The cave it chose has a giant Porcupine Puffer hiding in it and they ignore each other. But also in the cave is a moray eel which smells the clam and comes to investigate to which the Triggerfish responds by giving him gentle nips.Video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones. Great Barrier Reef.
Weird Mystery Sea Creature.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-15 | Something I have always called a "salp" but still unsure of the exact taxonomic placement, this creature is one of the strangest Ive encountered on the Great Barrier Reef.
Whitetips Sexual Aggregation 4.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-14 | There were 4 White Tip Reef Sharks milling around the one spot and as there seemed to be no food source we concluded it was a sexual thing, probably a mating aggregation.
Hawksbill Feeding.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-13 | A young Hawksbill turtle feeding on algae. Video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones
Weird Mystery Giant Sea Creature Great Barrier Reef.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-12 | This video has myself in the shot to show scale. At first we thought it was a floating egg case or egg mass from a gastropod snail or similar but later realised it could be a planktonic creature like a colonial ascidian or siphonophore. Open to suggestions ! Video taken by a tourist for Chris Jones on snorkel. UPDATE: This is not a Pyrosome or a Siphonophore animal. This has been confirmed as the egg mass of Thysanoteuthis rhombus, the Rhomboid Squid.
Flying Gunnard versus Cod 1.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-12 | Cool natural history video showing defence behaviour of the amazing gunnard species using its extraordinary pectoral fins with eye-spots to confuse a much larger seranid (cod) which wants to eat him.Video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones.
Daisy Dive Deep Feed & Shark.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-12 | Just feeding Daisy (Malabar Cod) some tiny seafood morsels. video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones.
Fluffy & BabyShark.AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-07 | This is a quite young White Tip Reef Shark which is very habituated to humans. This video was taken specifically to show dive instructors a better way to allow guests to see this nocturnal species than to grab them roughly and wrestle into submission. Here you can see I am only very gently grasping her tail tip between finger and thumb while supporting the body. As soon as she realises that she is no longer in the cave, she starts to swim whereupon I release her tail, she slides off my hand and glides back into the cave. No harm. No fowl. No stress. Video taken on Great Barrier Reef.
Turtle Feed Weed 1 .AVI Chris Jones 2010-02-07 | This video not only shows a friendly juvenile green turtle being hand fed some filamentous algae but also perfectly illustrates the relationship between sunlight and coral cover/diversity.Note that in the shallow sunlit waters, not only does the light level give the fish and coral great colors, there is a LOT more life in the shallows overall. Diving (scuba) is marketed to make reef operators rich. In fact, 90% of reef life can be seen using just a mask & snorkel.Video taken on snorkel by Chris Fluffy Jones.
