Anth and Bron are back in the studio and they are good and scattered. Bron has had minor altercation with a big black urban assault vehicle.

Watch out for the latest crustacean discovery from the South Pacific - a furry lobster (the marine sheep). The pattern for a toy version is available on the Internet. The weather was interrupted by an issue about the non-changing for the clocks this weekend.

Friday April 21st Aquarium Marine Careers Day - call on 99235911

Cliff the elephant sea on the Mornington Peninsula has had to be put down and a result of abuse by people. He had plastic bags stuffed up his nose, fed plastic bags and rubbish. Please leave it to the experts.

After 10 years the laws on ocean dumping have finally been ratified. The things you can dump are fish waste, sewage waste, steel and concrete.

The Airforce bombed the Pon Soo - a freighter ceased by the Government. Apparently there will be no environmental damage as they cleaned it first.

Sometimes fisherman look at what they catch, and in this case there were weird barnacle like creatures attached to them. It turned out that they were the precursor to the modern barnacle - are about 500 m years old.

They are different in that their shells are made of phosphate, not limestone like their modern counterpart, are quite small, and they have an interesting sex life. Modern barnacle is a hermaphrodite - so they can be either a male or female. The ancients were female, and they carried a dwarf male inside, to fertilise eggs when they are ready - an interesting principle.

This was the discovery of a new order. That is like finding reptiles, or birds - a major new branch in the tree of life.

" Lonely Girl "

" Firetail "

"Blue Monday"

Big House

Keiran Murphy

New Order

This weekend has been stunning - Cyclone Larry in Queensland has given us a wonderful weather pattern. Water temp is still 19 in the ocean.

Brett gave us a brief history of the changes in the Peninsula over the last 20 years. This included a history of the Toorak tractor invasion, the presence of street lights, and the number of new boats (lemmings and landcruisers). The major industry is now coffee.