Understanding, enjoying and caring for our oceans
As I reported in my (forthcoming) April 2023 column “Southern Waters” in Dive Log magazine, I don’t have any cave diving experience myself, other than snorkelling in Piccaninnie Ponds and diving in Ewens Ponds. (The header image was taken from a TV screen) Me at Picaninnie Ponds I only ever […]
40 years ago, back in 1983, there was no Internet whilst I was the Editor for our Society’s newsletter. I still could have done a little more research towards the April issue of our newsletter that year though. An elderly relative told me a tale about how a fish tagged […]
(This article is a re-write of one published in our 2006 Journal, because it was only one of the early drafts that was published in error and some of the intended information was missing. I attempted to rectify the error by having Part 2 published in our 2007 Journal. Now, […]
Environment Minister Ian Hunter issued a Press Release on 5th December 2017 concerning the recent discovery of 27 congolli in 5 rivers on KI. It announced that a fish species known as congolli had been discovered in freshwater rivers across Kangaroo Island for the first time. The presence of congolli […]
I recently collected a small congolli that I found effectively ‘belly up’. The small congolli effectively ‘belly up’ (Taken by David Muirhead) Actually, it was lying on its side, on the shallow bottom towards one sandy rubbly bank of the moderately briskly outflowing but very narrow rivulet. The small congolli lying on its side, […]
Ewens Ponds is a somewhat little-known secret in regards to fresh-water diving and snorkeling in South Australia. Situated about half an hour south of Mount Gambier, it is fairly easily accessed via unsealed roads (once you have hired a wetsuit at the local Deli in my case). It consists of […]