Blue Jellyfish numbers up
November 28, 2009 by BayKeeper
Filed under Education, Wild Things
The thousands of dead Blue Jellyfish (Catostylus mosaicus) on Port Phillip Bay beaches in recent months prompts the obvious questions: why are there suddenly so many; and why did they die? Is it a natural cycle, or was it something they ate? Blue Jellies are said to feed on micro-organisms, small fishes, and organic particles [...]
Short-tailed Shearwaters
November 22, 2009 by BayKeeper
Filed under Education, Featured, Wild Things
Short-tailed Shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris aka Muttonbirds) have been reported dead on Port Phillip Bay beaches over the past week. I found five at Point Gellibrand today. Large numbers of dead seabirds prompts concern that they may have suffered from pollution or some other unnatural threat. But in this case it seems to be a cyclical [...]
STORM SURGE HITS BEACHES
ANZAC Day 2009 saw all the conditions line up for major beach erosion. Stormforce (120km per hour) southerly to westerly winds associated with a low pressure system centred over Bass Strait combined with a king tide to strip hundreds of thousands of tonnes of sand from the bay’s eastern beaches and foredunes. Such storms have [...]
