Albany Pelagic Trips – 4th & 5th May

G’day everyone, We still have some spaces for both days off Albany (south coast WA) if anyone is interested. We do need minimum numbers to run these trips and at present I don’t have that, so if you’re keen to come along please let me know ASAP. Given the issues with filling the boat for … Read more

Cicadas in April

The cicadas are still calling every day here near Bellingen on the NSW mid north coast – it’s really unusually late for them. We had a big cicada summer in December and January (lots of types, but the ones I saw were Razor Grinders and Floury Bakers, and I heard a honking one that I … Read more

Mundane & useless threads

Hi all, I thought I’d stay out of this conversation thread as I can’t really abide another discussion on capitalisation and grammar – HOWEVER, when the conversation turned to bullying I felt that I had to participate. I have seen many postings over the years that I think are, at the very least, rude – … Read more

Southport Pelagics

Hi all, with that excellent sighting of a New Zealand Storm-Petrel on the weekend off Swansea (I’ve already seen a photo from John Weigel) I thought I might put another reminder out about the up coming Southport pelagic this coming Saturday 20th April. There have now been 13 individual sightings of this species off Southport … Read more

Mundane & useless threads!

Good points, Philip, but I’d just like to clear up what I believe might be a misconception about how the capitalisation thread started. I believe that poster was suggesting that the grader driver may have *verbally* misunderstood “Night Parrot” for any kind of “night parrot”, and not that he was picking up a mistake in … Read more