November One Four Challenge – Week One

For over a year now, a group of us has been taking part in the One Four Challenge, a worthwhile photo editing project normally hosted by Robyn Gosby at Captivate Me, which involves working on an image in four different ways over four weeks.  But for our last challenge for 2015 (we have a review…

Below The Waterline

With winter behind us and our boat over 2000 kilometers away in Queensland for another two months, we are missing our sails on weekends.  It is so strange being landlubbers, but as you would expect, we are plotting our next escapade: we have an extra-long weekend coming up for Melbourne Cup and will fly north to…

Sea Mammals Series – The Dugong

The last post in our Sea Mammals series is the elusive Dugong.  The name comes from the Malay “Duyong”, meaning “lady of the sea”.  Its slow and graceful swimming is possibly the inspiration for mariners’ tales of mermaids.  The common name for the Dugong is sea cow, no doubt because it grazes on the sea…