Big thanks to Emma Royer for sending this pic of a Common Violet Snail (Janthina janthina) found on Point Lonsdale dog beach on 26-11-2016. There were 30-40 or so washed up among their preferred prey: By-the-Wind-Sailors (Velella … [Read more...]
Plants for St Kilda seabirds
At 650 metres long, St Kilda breakwater is much more than a maritime structure. Along with the penguins, a pair of Pied Oystercatchers have been hanging on the breakwater too. It's also the biggest rock garden in the Southern Hemisphere! Plants … [Read more...]
Trash Trade comes to Rye
Sorrento Watertowers Inc with Tangaroa Blue will hold a beach clean-up with a twist at Rye front beach on Sunday 24th of January 2016, 10.30am – 3pm. They’ve borrowed the Seaside Scavenge concept: volunteers collect and trade beach trash for second … [Read more...]
Witness King Tides – it’s coming up!
Hard to believe that the highest tide recorded in Port Phillip Bay (in 1936) was just 150 mm below the deck of Brookes Jetty. But tides are tricky! While there are two high tides each day, the time interval between them is never the same. Due to the … [Read more...]
Beach Patrol keeps kicking goals
Hats off to Guy Boston for giving birth to 3206 Beach Patrol in 2009. By all accounts it wasn't a difficult birth, partly because he's the original 'nice Guy'; but also because the Beach Patrol concept is so simple. Plenty of local families from the … [Read more...]
3182 Beach Patrol gets the tonne!
Big round of applause for the 3182 Beach Patrol crew who after just 11 beach litter collections (one hour a month through 2013) have removed over 1.000 kilos of trash from St Kilda's beaches. In November they collected 101 kg of beach litter (two … [Read more...]
Pest seastar removal guide
When you're 2 metres underwater bagging pests from a grassy seabed the native Granular Seastar - Uniophora granifera (pictured on the right) can be easily mistaken for the pest Northern Pacific Seastar - Asterias amurensis (on the left). Mistaken … [Read more...]
St Kilda BayCare – a magic day
How good was that?!! Autumn sun and a surprise visit from the one and only Litter Fairy made a magic day. Members of Earthcare St Kilda, Port Phillip Transition Town, Port Phillip EcoCentre, 3182 Beach Patrol and City of Port Phillip's … [Read more...]
Baykeeper has left the building
What a fantastic evening I had at the recent Keep Australia Beautiful Victoria awards. Got to catch up with friends and colleagues, had a great view of the MCG watering system like an army of spotlit robots on the march, listened to a classy string … [Read more...]
Levi Strauss crew toughs it out!
Baykeeper was mighty impressed recently by the spirit of Melbourne-based Levi Strauss employees who volunteered to clean up St Kilda Beach. Despite wet and windy weather, forecast to get worse, they hit the beach with a smile and collected 6,328 … [Read more...]
Diverse groups unite for a happy beach
Around 60 people collected 5,871 items of litter from 500 metres of St Kilda West Beach on Clean Up Australia Day. It was great to be part of such a successful united effort. Participating groups included Earthcare St Kilda, Transition Towns Port … [Read more...]
Celebrate the Bay on Clean Up Day
Artists from a Sacred Heart rooming house have joined forces with Baykeeper to create a quirky but scary image of the future beach. Their 'butt castles' will be displayed on the sand at St KiIda West Beach on Clean Up Australia Day, Sunday March 4, … [Read more...]
Have a go! Clean Up Australia
It's a great feeling to be part of something as big and positive as Clean Up Australia Day! So why not give it a try?? More than 6 million tonnes of marine debris enter the world's oceans each year; and we cop a lot of litter entering the Bay from … [Read more...]
