Sorry for the long silence. It’s been a bit of a busy time. I need to get this story done as I’m about to hit the ocean again with Pindito. …
Animal Impact
I braved the cold today and managed an hour and a half swim. There aren’t a lot of fish about right now. If you look offshore towards Portarlington you’ll see …
It took Biruté over twenty years to begin to understand Orangutans. This is because it takes at least two generations to confirm the way any animal behaves. For female Orangutans, …
Last night we went to see Jane Goodall speak at the Palais in St Kilda, Melbourne. It’s Jane’s 90th birthday this year. Last time I was at the Palais, I …
It’s starting to get cold! For many of us, Port Phillip Bay snorkelling and water temperature go hand-in-hand. I went for a swim last week (a proper one) without a …
It might be the last chance for a few days so I dropped into the shallows at Ricketts today for an hour. I was only picking around the edges of …
A paper published this week in Current Biology describes some of the ideal mechanisms behind soil restoration. However, like many academic studies, it is questionably too complex and theoretical to …
After my successful swim yesterday I decided to look at the other side of fossil beach to the east. I had heard visibility was better there yesterday. That little pocket …
It never ceases to amaze me how different every swim can be. Today I dropped in on the fossil-beach side of the Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron and headed out to …
A night snorkel at Blairgowrie Pier was the chance to take advantage of light winds. There are spring tides at present but the evening tide variation was only small, so …
