Adventure Pushing the Barrow …suit needs such as fishing and transportation. At its northern end it joins with the Grand Canal, an aquatic umbilicus connecting rural Ireland to Dublin, and it’s navigable for its…
How To How to paddle offshore and in open water …living to tell the tale of your aquatic adventures, including the ones that went belly-up, but which you had the skill/gear to extricate yourself from in one piece. Training Ideally,…
News Wobbegongs have more complex social lives than we thought …used a collaborative method of data collection, known as the Integrated Marine Observing System network, to track the movements and associations of individual sharks in Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve…
Destinations Rainforest to reef: Tropical North Queensland I WAS GOBSMACKED. A massive Queensland groper lazily swam over to my sea kayak before performing the aquatic equivalent of buzzing the tower, swimming directly beneath my watercraft. It was…
History & Culture Australia's first lady of the surf …to a house built by her master-builder dad, William, near Freshwater Beach, just over the headland from Manly. It suited Letham’s appetite for outdoor and aquatic pursuits, and by her…
News Tough environment no barrier to platypus …aquatic habitats, from pristine areas such as national parks, to farm dams and even suburban locales. The quality of the habitat is important to the survival of the species. While…
Adventure TNQ: Feel the heat I WAS GOBSMACKED. A massive Queensland groper lazily swam over to my sea kayak before performing the aquatic equivalent of buzzing the tower, swimming directly beneath my watercraft. It was…
News Tasman Sea a “hotspot” for ocean warming …forests provide food and shelter to a huge variety of marine species, their destruction can have severe knock-on effects.” Warming waters have implications for aquaculture, too. “If you want to…
News Dugongs recovering well after flood crisis …World, Sydney Aquarium and Taronga Western Plains Zoo to assess the health and reproductive status of wild dugongs in Moreton Bay. The team has been taking samples of the population,…
History & Culture Great zoo escapes: confessions of a zookeeper …that two freshwater crocodiles had been stolen overnight from the zoo aquarium. It made all the newspapers, television and radio broadcasts. A zoo spokesman claimed that they would probably be…