I arrived back in Townsville yesterday. I was greeted by the smelly remants of what was, only a week ago, a thriving reef ecosystem. It had totally crashed. Three of the four fish are dead; the only survivor is the sail-fin tang. All the hard corals are gone, bleached and RTN’d beyond recovery. The majority [...]
Well, on a less cute and fluffy note then, while Tom was in Adelaide, going on a nice little feildtrip and recovering from his hangover, yesterday when I got out of class I had a message on my phone from Helen our landlord, saying “ah, Zoe, there is a bit of water coming through [...]
Today I received a phone call from our landlady. It was just as I was checking out the massive estuary at the bottom of the Murray; just as a guy was telling us that 25mm of water across the whole surface is about 20,000,000,000 L! This was fitting because the landlady had rung to inform [...]
Just heard a funny-sad-cute story from my mum, and thought you might appreciate it. As many of you will know, my mother lives on a small farm in the Far North of Northland (yes, those are district/region names) anyway, it’s a farm, but not really to farm anything for anyone else, just a little paddocks, [...]
I’m in Adelaide at this conference, all going well. Networking etc… also been sampling the fine wines with Boysie (my old flatmate) and checking out the town. Tommorrow out to the mouth of the Murray to check out the barrages and fish ladders (should be interesting). Taking today off to do some shopping for massive, [...]