SCMDC is joining forces with NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service and BirdLife Australia to conduct 2 days of workshops focusing on local shorebirds. The workshops will be held on 28th & 29th November from 9:30am till 4:00pm, with Day 1 centred around the Marine Discovery Centre. The first day will focus on learning…
Read more →The Centre was absolutely packed all day Saturday during the Eden Whale Festival. Our ‘people counter’ clicked just under 500 people through but suggests that due to being called on for other duties at times, we probably far exceeded that number. It was wonderful to see so many families come through the doors and…
Read more →This year’s Eden Whale Festival brings no less than 5 expert speakers to our town to talk about their specific areas of expertise. The line up is very impressive indeed: Tonight Thursday 1st November 6pm for a 6:30pm start at Eden Country Club (Golf Club) (FREE ENTRY): NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service have…
Read more →SCMDC will soon join forces with NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service and BirdLife Australia to conduct two days of workshops where you can learn all you ever wanted to know about shorebirds. The workshops will be held on 28th & 29th November from 9:30am till 4:00pm. Day 1 will be centred around the…
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 →SCMDC staff members Jillian Riethmuller and Sheree Epe attended the recent MDCA forum hosted by the Central Coast Marine Discovery Centre in Terrigal, NSW. MDCA is a collaborative group comprised of a number of marine discovery centres from around Australia. With funding from the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, MDCA members meet annually to…
Read more →The Annual Eden Whale Festival is almost here. Check out the Festival website: www.edenwhalefestival.com.au or facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eden-Whale-Festival/195565740490810 for the program, Festival highlights and more. The Discovery Centre will be open as follows: Saturday 3rd November: 11am – 3pm (Special Entry Price: Gold Coin Donation) 12.30pm: Fish and octopus feeding 2pm: Whale presentation from a…
Read more →We’re happy to announce that a date has been set for a Seabird Rescue Workshop to be conducted by the Australian Seabird Rescue organisation on Saturday 9th February 2013. The workshop will be open to the first 40 people to book a place and will commence at 9am. It is planned to finish at…
Read more →The team from SURFAH (Surface and Underwater Research on Feeding Australian Humpback whales) are back again, this time with a bigger boat, bigger crew and longer research period. Last night (Wednesday 12th September) the team gave a very interesting presentation on their work to a community audience at the Marine Discovery Centre. The team,…
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…
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