Moon Snail ‘live’ at Altona Beach
November 11, 2009 by BayKeeper
Filed under Education, Wild Things
Nope… it’s not the latest indy music hip-hop crew strutting their stuff on the summer stage. Shells of Polinices sordidus aka Moon or Sand Snail and their sausage-shaped egg masses, have been commonly recorded in Baykeeper shoreline surveys around the Bay. But this Polinices at Altona beach, is the first live one found so far. [...]
Humpback Whales in Port Phillip Bay
October 8, 2009 by BayKeeper
Filed under Education, Featured, Wild Things
Not much is known about why Humpback Whales occasionally visit Port Phillip Bay. But whenever they do, it’s an opportunity to learn more about them. Sue Mason and David Donnelly of the Dolphin Research Institute tracked and photographed these two magnificent Megaptera novaeanglidae as they cruised between Mud Islands and Sorrento on September 21. DRI [...]
DOLPHINS LIVING DANGEROUSLY!
September 30, 2009 by BayKeeper
Filed under Education, Wild Things
Dolphins have a reputation of being smarter than your average mullet. After all, you can’t get to the top of the food chain on good looks alone. But being big in fishworld has its downside. You have to do what it takes to find a feed…. sometimes in dodgy waters. My notes on dolphins in [...]
