Sorry Day and News - The Team

Port Phillip EcoCentre - Neil Blake

Anth is back in the studio after a stint on the bench to have a baby, and Cath is returning to the panel from injury.

The last seastar dive is happening today at Inverloch - having pulled over 200 seastars out of Andersons Inlet.

VRFish has circulated a petition to phase out commercial netting in bays, inlets and the Gippsland Lakes. For more information contact Ray Page on 03 9412 5164.

Sorry Day remembers the stolen generation - The date (May 26th) is the date the Report on the Stolen Generation was handed to Parliament in 1997 or 1998 (Anth forgot which one). May27 was the day in 1967 that the the referendum was passed that give the indigenous population Australian Citizenship. And June 3 is the date when the Mabo decision was handed down. The best websites for information are that of Reconciliation Australia and and Journey of Learning.

The Museum Victoria, Reef Watch and Melbourne Aquarium are having a session on flatworms and nudibranchs, called "The Butterflies of the Sea" It is on Monday 31 May, from 5:45 to 8pm at the Age Theatre at the Melbourne Museum. Contact Wendy Roberts to book on 8341 7446

The Albatross Steeplechase - a race across the Indian ocean funded by the gambling community to track albatrosses to help science. The lead bird - Aphrodite appears to have been killed by longliners, so Xanadu is now leading. Head to the Ladbrokes site for more details.

Ghost nets in the Gulf of Carpentaria appear to be catching more fish than the commercial fishers - which they are finding a bit annoying. The nets seem to be from small boats rather than big business

Corporate and public groups are getting together to help St Kilda - Sunday 6 June will have an extravaganza - starting with a seastar pickup, a breakwater walk (with compost), a look at the water quality at the outfall, a touch tank at the rotunda, winter soup, other food, roving entertainers, natural history tours, planting, face painting for kids of all ages. To help or take part, contact Neil on 9209 6491.

There is a similar event at Bells Beach on Saturday 5th, and to help call 5261 7544

The ships cat was sick for the first time, thats how bad the weather was - Windward Bound (a tall ship) left Georgetown on a 14 hr cruise, and 40 hrs later they arrived at Deal Island after sailing though a megastorm that damaged commercial shipping. The waves were as tall as a 3 story building, and they were lucky a gale blew up to push them out of the way.

" Special Treatment "

"Shrimp Stories "

"Jimmy Little "

Gerry Hales Uncle Bill

Yo La Tango

Jimmy Little

Brett is lost - we will search next week