23 articles
Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary is Melbourne's easiest kelp-country snorkel and shore dive. A practical guide to the reefs, seasons and calm-water windows.
Tom Okafor ·
Beyond the town and the postcards: a coastal atlas guide to Esperance's remote east — Cape Arid, Israelite Bay, the outer Recherche islands and kelp few people ever see.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Where a warm current runs the wrong way, kelp forests hold the tropical edge — the Margaret River capes, their wildlife and the heatwave that changed them.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
The long-spined sea urchin is reshaping Australia's temperate reefs as warming currents carry it south — a species profile of the barren-builder of Tasmania.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Under the Bass Strait swell off Victoria's Phillip Island, golden kelp reefs feed seals, whales and the little penguins of Australia's most famous wildlife show.
Tom Okafor ·
Western Victoria's Portland coast mixes Australia’s only mainland gannet colony, summer blue whales and golden kelp beds fed by the Bonney upwelling.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Hippocampus abdominalis, the pot-bellied seahorse, is one of the world's largest seahorses — a slow, golden giant of Australian and New Zealand kelp gardens.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Sydney lost its crayweed forests to sewage in the 1980s — then brought them back. A guide to the city's kelp, golden kelp meadows and dive reefs.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A region guide to Wilsons Promontory — granite reefs, cold Bass Strait water, crayweed and common kelp forests, fur seals and how to visit the Prom's marine parks.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
After 90 days alone on the Great Southern Reef, autonomous vessel Drifter 7 returned with 4.2 million images and one bent propeller. This is its story.
Jack Callum ·
Seven months after seeding, the first kelp canopy breaks the surface at Stumpy's Bay. Tidewright's crew logs the milestone — and what it actually means.
Jack Callum ·
Granite reefs, golden kelp, leafy seadragons and sea lions: a field guide to Kangaroo Island's wild underwater south, from Penneshaw to Western River Cove.
Tom Okafor ·
Behind the treacherous Rip lies a 1,900 km² sunken valley of kelp beds and seagrass: Port Phillip Bay, the temperate reef at Melbourne's front door.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Tasmania's east coast has lost the vast majority of its giant kelp forests to warming seas and urchins. Explore what happened here, and what's coming back.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Tasmania lost around 95 percent of its giant kelp forests in decades. Here's the science of the collapse, the urchin invasion — and the restoration race to bring it back.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Australia has a second great reef — 8,000 km of temperate kelp forest across five states, more endemic than the Great Barrier Reef, and in serious trouble.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A coastal atlas guide to Esperance, Western Australia: kelp forests beneath the whitest beaches in the country, granite islands, seadragons and how to see them.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Guide to Port Stephens, NSW, where the Great Southern Reef meets the warm north — grey nurse sharks, sponge gardens, shore dives and a shifting kelp line.
Tom Okafor ·
The striped trumpeter is Tasmania's celebrated hand-line fish — a kelp-reef juvenile, a deep-reef adult, and a lesson in how long-lived fish repay patience.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The herring cale is a cigar-shaped, beak-toothed herbivore that grazes kelp across the Great Southern Reef — and moves its energy up the food web.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Meet the western blue groper — Western Australia's giant blue wrasse of the kelp reefs, an urchin-eating patriarch that can live more than half a century.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
King George Sound shelters some of southern WA's richest kelp reefs. A coastal atlas guide to Albany's granite forests, whale history and cold clear diving.
Tom Okafor ·
Golden kelp forms the backbone of Australia's Great Southern Reef. Learn to identify Ecklonia radiata and why this habitat-maker is on the move as oceans warm.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·