Back in the bay

Hi everyone! I'm back in Shark Bay after a 6 month hiatus and am so glad to be here. It is hot and there are tons of animals. Yesterday we saw 9 dugongs, 6 sea snakes, and a baby green turtle. We also have some resident stone fish in our experiments in the seagrass banks. If you don't know what a stone fish is, I'll try and find a photos, but they are very ugly and very dangerous fish. They have venom in their spines that hurts so much people often die from the pain. Yikes!

I want to thank Curtin University, STAWA and DEC EcoEducation for the gorgeous PD event last month. Thank you also to all the teachers who attended. We got great feedback and it was so nice to meet all of you. Our third Australian teacher, Kym Phillips from Denmark Environment Centre and DET is currently with us at Monkey Mia.

So far we've had a few fishing days and some good days for diving and prey surveys. We've caught 9 tiger sharks and 2 black tip reef sharks (we think). Three of the tiger sharks have been recaptures, so we're excited to see how much they've grown.

Photos to come soon!