A few days ago I received an email with a request for information about the Paper Nautilus “shell.” Dinah Voyles Pulver was writing an article for the Daytona Beach News Journal about Debbie Brokaw, an early morning beachcomber who chanced to find a completely intact Paper nautilus. I offered Dinah some information about the relative […]
Exotic lionfish have invaded Florida waters. They are a problem because: They eat everything in sight and can reduce reef fish populations by 80% in a matter of weeks. They have poisonous spines and are dangerous to humans, especially to divers and fishermen. They have no natural predators to keep their populations in check. They […]
Here’s some video I shot at the Seabean Symposium over the weekend. It’s about two-and-a-half minutes long.
Video below: Thanks to Gio Serrano for sharing this on Facebook, where I saw it. Nice video.
Suzy and I took a trip over to Cocoa Beach this past weekend to give my presentation on beach safety at the Cocoa Beach Library. Friday evening we drove down to Melbourne Beach to get away from the crowd. We took a walk at the Ponce de Leon beach access and found a few turtle […]
Kim Fleischhauer sent me this photo of a partially decomposed jellyfish she took on the beach in Puerto Penasco, Mexico for identification. I was a bit stumped at first. I immediately recognized the body structure of the jelly as that of Stomolophus, the Cannonball jellyfish (aka Cabbagehead). But the blue coloration was confusing. I’d never […]
So far this season sea turtles have been nesting on Florida’s southwest coast beaches in record numbers. Expectations were high for a very successful nesting season. The great news was being reported on Sanibel, Naples beaches, Anna Maria Island beaches, and just about every beach in southwest Florida. Unfortunately there is a fly in […]
In Summer 2011, a time-lapse photographic study of sea turtle nesting was done on Florida’s Brevard County beaches (Melbourne Beach area) to analyze the behavior of the sea turtles. There was some concern that the educational guided turtle walks conducted by various sea turtle monitoring organizations could be contributing to the number of false […]
If you’re looking for something different this summer, how about watching a sea turtle laying eggs at night on a Florida beach? You’ll have the best chance of seeing a turtle on Florida’s Atlantic coast beaches on a guided turtle walk. Sea turtles do nest along Florida’s Gulf coast, but not in the huge numbers […]
