The whole Sapphire Coast is now buzzing with happy tourists and we are already seeing a few families through the Centre. Thanks a million to the guys at Eden Mussels for bringing us a gorgeous new little octopus this morning. He/she (too small yet to tell!) is settling in nicely.
Read more →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 →The December 2012 Newsletter is out now. Download Sea Scenes December 12 here and enjoy catching up on our news.
Read more →On Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th of November, the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre in conjunction with NSW National Parks and Wildlife Services and Birdlife Australia hosted an informative, fun and extremely interesting Shore bird and beach nesting bird workshop. Held over two days with two field trips to Lake Curalo in Eden, and…
Read more →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 →Thanks to the Australian Government Caring for our Country Program, we received a Community Action Grant that has enabled us to hold two days of workshops focusing on the beautiful shorebirds in our region. Thanks to our new friends Dan Weller and Grainne Maguire from BirdLife Australia (www.birdlife.org.au) and Robyn Kesby from NSW National…
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 →We were very excited to learn we had received another Mumbulla Foundation Grant, which will enable us to purchase a new MicroEYE microscope and projector. We purchased our first MicroEYE through a Marine Discovery Centres Australia Grant (FRDC) and it has been so popular we decided we needed another. MicroEYE microscopes are user friendly…
Read more →Researchers from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences are currently making good use of our marine laboratory. They are growing tiny zooplankton called foraminifera under different temperature and carbon dioxide levels to see how they will adapt to a changing climate.
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