82. From the Shore

All the photos in this post, except one, are from a shore dive I did a few weeks ago in the coral garden at Fly Point, Nelson Bay. An earlier post on this site had some natural history first and then reflections on the situation we are all facing. Today, it will be the pandemic first and animals at the end.

My previous posts (1, 2) discussed two issues: the extent of the lockdowns, given the trade-offs between immediate and longer-term harms, and the excessive policing of behavior in some...