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 …
This is a bit of a departure from my normal blogs but this came up in conversation twice yesterday. I thought it useful to link to a few of the …
Here’s my latest Raja Ampat trip report from our coral triangle cruises. Another wonderful trip with a lovely group of people. On this trip we were about 50:50 divers to …
The weather was just too good to ignore. Perhaps this would be the last warm day of summer? It was still 21 degrees by sunset and tomorrow’s temperature was forecast …
Rarer than the Tasmanian Tiger and more mysterious, the Southern Moray has never been seen alive. A single specimen collected in Port Phillip Bay’s Half Moon Bay in 1884 is …
