On Friday March 22, the staff was surprised and delighted when a man with a turtle turned up on our front door step. Michael Hewitt from Melbourne was happily fishing in Pambula Lake while on holiday when he came across a lost green turtle. He quickly collected her and brought her down to us hoping to...
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We would like to congratulate proud mother Morticia on her beautiful new children, all 1000 of them! As you may have guessed Morticia is not human. She is the lovely gloomy octopus living at the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre. The octobabies as they have come to be known were hatched on Monday December...
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 →It has been an exciting month here at the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre with the multiple births of literally hundreds of baby octopus occurring over a number of days. First discovered Monday the 4th of June, the tank was bubbling with activity as minute (about 1mm long) baby octopus, or hatchlings, bobbed around and up and down...
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