Marine Life Society of South Australia Inc.
Understanding, enjoying and caring for our oceans
The Dolphin Dock website provides good information about South Australia’s dolphins. There are features about the Port River and Patawalonga lake dolphins. There are also details about the Patawalonga Dolphin…
We have an online library through Librarika Each of the items in our library are given ‘Categories’ for topics from ‘Animal behaviour’ to ‘Wildlife’. Most items have some relevance to…
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…
This month, I attended the Port Adelaide Environment Forum to hear a presentation about the results of the Senate Inquiry into the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary (Select Committee of the Legislative…
Since writing about Marineland’s dolphins in 2020, I have been interviewed by both Channel 7 Adelaide News’ “Flashback” and Sonya Feldhoff on ABC Radio Adelaide. My interview by Sonya Feldhoff…
The Fab Five can be found in South Australia’s Commonwealth Marine Parks. They are five of SA’s ‘Fabulous’ charismatic species – the Australian sea lion, White-bellied sea eagle, Giant Australian…
Forget the Fab Four, the Fab Five are here! The Fab Five are 5 icons from Australia’s Commonwealth Marine Parks. These 5 icons are Southern right whales, Giant Australian cuttlefish,…
I see similarities between the recent and seemingly quite rapidly escalating decline in Port River dolphin numbers and the continuing extinction trend in the bushland birds of Adelaide and the…
On 15th November, I attended a community forum held by the Australian Marine Wildlife Research & Rescue Organisation Inc. (AMWRRO) to discuss recent (& ongoing) dolphin deaths in the Port…
David Muirhead spotted a few longnose fur seals, Arctocephalus forsteri, prior to our recent snorkel at Snapper Point at Aldinga Beach. The seals were still swimming just off of the…