Turtle Sighting at Semaphore & Catfish at West Lakes
Symonne Ellis, our latest Facebook follower, told us that she had “had an interesting couple of days with two observations that (she) thought may be of interest”. Symonne sent us…
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Symonne Ellis, our latest Facebook follower, told us that she had “had an interesting couple of days with two observations that (she) thought may be of interest”. Symonne sent us…
Emily May recently sent us a query regarding some unusual mating behaviour by southern bobtail squid, Euprymna tasmanica, that she had observed during a night dive at Rye Pier, Port…
A large, stocked anchor thought to be from the 1837 shipwreck Solway is located by the entrance to the National Trust Museum at 1 Flinders Parade, Victor Harbor. The Solway…
John Turnbull (Marine Explorer) posted these stills on Flickr a while back: – “Before and After the Floods #marineexplorer (Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwturnbull/51114323714/ ) According to the caption for the two stills,…
It seems that there have been several spellings/miss-spellings for the name of the ship Duilius wrecked in Guichen Bay in 1853. Here is one such discrepancy, in “Wrecks on the…
Several Australian warships have been scuttled as dive wrecks since 1997. (The River Class frigate HMAS Derwent was also sunk off Rottnest Island, Western Australia during explosives testing on 21st…
After reading The Old Glenelg Jetty Aquarium, Jana Minchin recently told me that the Glenelg jetty aquarium was made by (Alfred) Keith Minchin. Keith was the son of Alfred Corker…
Our new South Australian Anchor Trail is a combination of the Anchors in South Australia Google map and our Port Adelaide Anchor Trail. Some of the anchors on the Anchors…
PIRSA are transferring their introduced marine species data to the Atlas of Living Australia, so that they will be publicly available: – “From ALA news, July 2024: Primary Industries and…
Society members Mick & Monique Taylor moved to Streaky Bay on the west coast recently. Monique told me, “We started our own domain @ozsealion.com. We’ve secured a new boat in…