If you haven’t heard already we have a great new Youtube channel. You can view all our clips at http://www.youtube.com/user/scmdc77 We have octopus videos, mentos/diet coke explosions and crazy whale dances (Gangnam style)!
Read more →Feeling an elephant snail, holding a decorator crab and dancing like an anemone are just some of the fun activities that Narooma Public School students were able to experience during their recent visit from the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre. Two weeks ago I (Jillian Riethmuller, marine education officer) loaded up the car with a touch tank, dried specimens and…
Read more →This year the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre held a colouring in competition for the Eden Whale Festival. We had a huge number of entries from all over the area and even further afield such as Mallacoota and Canberra. The students were given a killer whale to colour in and the variety of entries was astounding,…
Read more →Whales seem to be the talk of the town with Humpbacks breaching left right and centre, Orcas visiting Lennards Island and the Eden Whale Festival make a splash in town. On top of all this the local students of the Bega Valley Shire have become Whale Wise through participating in fun hands on workshops in…
Read more →The Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre is now on Youtube. Check out our channel to see videos of demonstrations (including a mentos diet coke whale blow), film of our animals and other things that we get up to at the marine discovery centre. Share with all your friends and family! http://www.youtube.com/user/SCMDC77?feature=mhee
Read more →Kids start your pencils!! Celebrate the Eden Whale Festival and enter our colouring in competition! Win a whale watching cruise with Merimbula Marina! 2 categories: 0 -6 year olds & 7 – 14 year olds. Download the Colouring in competition form to enter! Entries need to be brought into the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre by…
Read more →Exciting news everyone, the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre has not one but two new octopuses. A beautiful little girl gloomy octopus and a dashing young male pale octopus!! Since the sad passing of everyone’s favourite star Octavia we have had an empty tank as a sad reminder but now we have a new…
Read more →The Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre would like to congratulate Lachlan Mitchell from Eden, NSW on winning the National Science Week Photo Scavenger Hunt. Lachlan won a limited edition LEGO® set of the CSIRO research vessel the Investigator. Only 100 of these sets have been designed and produced for Australia. You can find out more about…
Read more →The Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre teamed up with a number of partners for a week of fun, trivia and sexy science during National Science Week 2012. It was a huge success with lots of people getting involved with science in a fun and engaging way. With the support of the Australian National University…
Read more →There is still time to get a table in for our exciting National Science Week Trivia Night! Call us on 02 6496 1699 to book in yourself or a whole table. There will be lots of great prizes from the following sponsors. Trivia Night Sponsors Merimbula Aquarium http://www.merimbulawharf.com.au/ The Australian National University http://drss.anu.edu.au/student_equity/ Merimbula…
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