0606 hrs by StephEvaPhoto
0606 hrs by StephEvaPhoto
https://sathyabh.at/northern-beaches-day-trip/
small write up & pics from northern beaches trip from Friday
Anzac Day was spent with a nice drive to the Northern Beaches - Narrabean, Mondale Headland Reserve and Palm Beach.
Sydney Beach balls: Cooking oils and human faeces?
"A UNSW scientist has criticised the NSW environmental watchdog for dropping its investigation into the cause of hundreds of tar balls appearing along Sydney's beaches."
"One possible explanation for the balls could be the illegal dumping of large vats of cooking oil into the sewerage system, where it has mixed with human waste to form fatty balls. If companies are seeing this as a cheap option to pump oil through the sewage system, that's a real concern."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-15/epa-criticised-for-dropping-probe-into-balls-on-beaches/104817182
#Pollution #dumping #waste #Sydney #NSW #beaches #NorthernBeaches #Manly #faeces
ADCO Constructions fined for pollution threatening Sydney's last climbing galaxias. The climbing native freshwater fish was here for 90-million-years.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-25/adco-constructions-fined-pollution-affects-climbing-galaxia-fish/104645068
#pollution #CurlCurlCreek #NorthernBeaches #school #construction #Sydney #harm #fish
Drunk men are among the biggest dangers to women in Sydney.
"Of the 230,217 domestic assaults involving female victims in NSW over the past decade, one in three of those involved alcohol.Some of Sydney’s most exclusive harbourside enclaves – including North Sydney, Mosman, the Northern Beaches and Woollahra – saw an even higher percentage of DV assaults involving booze, according to data compiled by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research and obtained by the Herald."
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-sydney-suburbs-with-the-most-alcohol-related-domestic-violence-20240705-p5jrdr.html
#alcohol #industry #DV #violence #NorthernBeaches #Sydney #safety #crime #FASD
Little (Fairy) Penguins on Northern Beaches are on the brink
Little Penguin flipper, cleanly severed, found on a walking track in bushland.
Biggest dangers to the birds are introduced dogs, cats, foxes and humans.
#birds #endangered #penguins #Manly #dogs #pets #NorthernBeaches
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7wKS0fRVo
So this is my #Introduction post; it’s not going to be an erudite & expansive affair, as I’m not sure what I want to use this for yet.
I’m #Sydney based, on Aboriginal land without clear or continuous traditional owners. As I understand so far; the First Nations people of the #NorthernBeaches copped the violence of the Sydney colony extremely hard. Massacres, displacement, disease & discrimination forced survivors to flee or disavow their heritage. Later linguists and researchers either did their best with the remaining fragments of culture, language & law, or they just made shit up about the First Nations. Traditional owners have resurfaced after learning about their suppressed heritage, which is welcomed & rejected by other First Nations groups.
So even naming the land & waters I live on is a fraught process.
Otherwise, I’m interested in #posterArt, #radicalGraffiti, #directAction, #mutualAid, #anarchism & #linocut
The New South Wales coastline: “We know disasters will continue to occur."
“Climate change is increasing the severity and frequency of natural hazards and increased development in these areas means more people are exposed. About 85% of the state lived within 50km of the coast, which made the population “particularly vulnerable to the impacts of coastal inundation and erosion”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/23/natural-disasters-could-cost-nsw-9bn-a-year-by-2060-analysis-finds
#Sydney #NorthernBeaches #NSW #coast #sprawl #FossilFuels #disasters #climate
A gerygone - I believe a brown gerygone (Gerygone mouki) in Irrawong Reserve on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Delightful little birds - they build beautiful hanging nests, although I haven’t seen any gerygone nests for years.
A white-browed scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis) parent with its two fledgling offspring.
Taken at a respectful distance with a long lens.
I love how scruffy-looking the youngsters are.
Quite a noisy image at high ISO in the forest gloom. Warriewood Reserve, on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Giant tyre washed ashore with 80 dead animals inside
"After a huge, human-sized tyre washed ashore at a popular northern Sydney beach earlier this week, baffling locals and bringing with it the carcasses of more than 80 sea animals, (dozens of native fish, sharks — including Port Jacksons and their young — and even sting rays) a council spokesperson has shed some light over the object's origins."
https://au.news.yahoo.com/council-sheds-light-giant-tyre-washed-ashore-80-dead-animals-long-reef-022657920.html
#Sydney #NorthernBeaches #LongReefBeach #marine #traps #waste #tyres
Database records of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in northern Sydney
This study examined records of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in northern Sydney held in online biodiversity databases. There were 221 unique records distributed across the Northern Beaches, Ku-ring-gai, Hornsby and Hills Shire local government areas from 1788 to 2022, with records from the Northern Beaches local government area comprising 68% of this dataset. ..
https://www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM22035
#koalas #DB #Sydney #NorthernBeaches
This was my commons this morning while walking my daughters dog. The track goes around the Long Reef Golf Course for 4 km. At the end of the walk I came across the Aust flag in the ocean. I think it is to show where the reef is. I am of home tomorrow. Have a great Friday day.
#longreefgolfcourse #nsw #northernbeaches #dog #australian #flag
@CatherineRussell2 As most of you are venturing into your sleep slumber, this is what my day has started out to be all day. Now tomorrow is a different matter, as showers have been predicted. I didn't realise that I have the moon and sun in the same shot.
#northernbeaches #sunandmoon #photo
SMH: ‘I haven’t been on time for work in months’: Voter fury over northern beaches buses
> Over the past six months, 11 per cent of planned buses bound for the city from the northern beaches never made it onto the road during the morning rush.
While visiting my old stomping ground on the #northernbeaches #sydney #australia I decided to visit where I did most of my growing up. There are town houses there now and a huge Morton Bay fig tree (I think that's what it's called). A great, great upbringing. #narrabeenlake
@CatherineRussell2@mastodon.worldook
what I cooked for breakfast. I am known to fib as well. Went to breakfast with my daughter and twin. #visitingdaughter #sister #breakfast #northernbeaches #oceanscafe #cornfritters #smashedavo #eggs #chillijam #labneh