Explore7 min read
Birdwatching the Kelp Coast: A Landlubber's Guide to Seabirds
You don't need fins to love a kelp forest. Here's how to read the seabirds that work its surface — murres, puffins, cormorants and gulls, all season long.
Tom Okafor ·
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9 articles
Atlas6 min read
Bruny Island: Tasmania's Kelp Garden at the Bottom of the Map
Ferry to Bruny Island for d'Entrecasteaux Channel kelp forests, sea-cliff wildlife cruises, white wallabies and Tasmania's foodiest postcode.
Tom Okafor ·
Explore9 min read
Wildlife Ethics in the Kelp: How Close Is Too Close?
A diver and snorkeller's ethics guide for kelp forests: safe distances for seals, otters and sharks, body language to read, and how to watch without chasing.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas12 min read
The Otago Peninsula: Royal Albatross Above, Bull Kelp Below
The Otago Peninsula stacks a mainland albatross colony, sea lions and penguins above forests of giant kelp and rimurapa. A guide to New Zealand's wildlife headland.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
Sitka Sound: Herring, Kelp and Cultures of the Inside Passage
Herring spawn on kelp, whales hunt the shoals, and Tlingit stewardship runs millennia deep — a guide to the kelp ecosystems of Sitka Sound, Alaska.
Tom Okafor ·
Explore9 min read
Tidepooling After Dark: A Different Low-Tide World
The night low tide belongs to octopus, crabs and hunting snails. How to tidepool after dark safely, what light to carry, and what you'll see that daylight hides.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas9 min read
Falkland Islands: The Engine of Southern Ocean Kelp
Inside the Falkland Islands' giant kelp beds — among the most extensive on Earth — and the penguins, seals and steamer ducks that run on them.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas11 min read
Kelp Forests of Otago: New Zealand's Southern Swell Forests
Dunedin's doorstep grows forests of giant kelp and southern bull kelp, patrolled by sea lions and hoiho penguins. A guide to Otago's cold southern reefs.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas11 min read
Kelp Forests of the Catlins: New Zealand's Forgotten Coast
The Catlins is New Zealand's most overlooked kelp coast — bull kelp surf fringes, rare sea lions, yellow-eyed penguins and a Jurassic forest under the tide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·