Ocean Stuff: The Kelp Forests of Tasmania

The pressure is on. Recently having a baby my beautiful wife wants us to go to see her family in Tasmania during my holidays.
I loathe spending money - but one of my life goals is to dive the kelp forests of Tasmania before they dissappear. This may be my chance.
60 Minutes ran a great program on this topic last night.

"Join Charles Wooley on a fantastic trip into another world — a place of
amazing colour, extraordinary creatures and profound serenity. Charles has just
returned from the waters of south-eastern Tasmania, where he's had the unique
opportunity to swim through a great undersea forest of giant kelp that grows
only in our cold southern waters and which, until now, most Australians have
never seen. Unfortunately, it's one of those cases of not knowing what we've got
until it's gone. Having only just discovered this underwater wonderland, Charles
has learnt that it's fast disappearing — and worse, that there might be very
little we can do to save it"...

Its just another symptom of Global warming...



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