Related. :)
RedPhoenix
joined 1 year ago
Nice!
Butcher bird though.
It's... not fun.
I've spent a little time around the Keppels. I remember kayaking out to Humpy island in August 2010, and being astounded by the vivid blue staghorn coral at the reef edge.
I've been back many times since, and though the coral health surges and wanes, the general trend is definitely negative. There are still small hints of colour in the reef around Humpy, but white, and white with hints of brown, predominates. In the last year or so I've started to see a few deeper water corals start to regenerate a little, and some of the more distant bays seem to be surging a little - but they're fighting a losing battle.
We're seeing less of this.
.. and more of this.
.. and fair enough, that second shot shows indications of damage unrelated to heat (maybe a boat anchor perhaps?) - but it's indicative. For better or worse, heat means that coral resilience drops through the floor. Anchor damage, tsunami, cyclone, crown-of-thorns. Things that it used to be able to shrug off in a reasonable timeframe, now cause long term issues.
I remember kayaking up near Peel Island when I saw one of these roll in from the gold coast.
No chance of making it back to base in time, so I pulled into the beach, found a place to sit out the storm, and asked the Mrs to call me when she spotted a clear weather window to make it back home again.
Some of my most fun trips were on a Hobie adventure island.
If it has sails, it's all good.
Around 14 surrounded the boat - didn't seem too worried by us. Kinda wished I had a drone available; with the winter water clarity, it would have been interesting!
Rainbow, looking south towards peel island, during a brief rain squall.
- socat
- ngrep
- vim
- pv
- htop
- jq
Generally, everything else I need is there by default depending on the distro.
Home workstation-wise.. maybe:
- meld
- kdenlive
- openscad
- Qtvlm, zygrib and OpenCPN
- gimp extras
- golang
- Inkscape
- Wireshark
- audacity
Landscape and vegetation reminds me of Bundy.. Qld?
Fair call, ta.
For those that are interested, here's our culprit's location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fHD41HSa4yK6yrY18
Actually scratch that one. It just missed the 'last week' cutoff.
And another on the same theme.