Yikes! 😱

Here's a smaller one with a similar approach, but one of the velvets here isn't intimidated and the lobster backs off - but I suppose you would think twice about confronting a velvet!

Interestingly I have at least another two examples of this lobster approach, scattering any onsite crabs in the chaos. I wonder whether it's a strategy they use to avoid them, when they'd be otherwise nervous?

Ah well done, that's a nice shot too and one of my favourites. I was bitten by one of these in WA, but that wasn't a pretty sight! 😬

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Lovely shot to repay the risk.
Following a very dicey experience with a Red Kite a couple of years ago I'm now a little bit twitchy, and despite careful checking they somehow they persist in arriving from nowhere to regularly exercise my nerves! 😬