Kurungabaa says goodbye
Kurungabaa: A journal of literature, history and ideas from the sea is closing up. It is time for the pelican to fly away. The print journal hasn’t been active for quite awhile and… Continue reading
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Aquatic Apes (again)
These genes are made for walking – another step from fins to limbs By Ella Kelly, The Conversation It’s one of the most tantalising questions in evolutionary biology: how did our aquatic ancestors… Continue reading
Crossing Antarctica – Børge Ousland
“On my first attempt to cross Antarctica, I walked more than 620 miles to the South Pole. But instead of reaching my destination, on the other side of the continent, I had to… Continue reading
Ice Music
A glimpse of the concert by the Norvegian group founded by Terje Isungset, with Lena Nymark and for the first time Sidsel Walstad on the ice harp. The group is playing on handmade… Continue reading
In defence of the Great White by Samuel Carmody
My father introduced me to surfing when I was seven or eight years old, carrying me into the beach breaks off my childhood town of Geraldton, West Australia, whilst I lay on my… Continue reading
“Daybreak, the Labrador Sea” by David Blackwood
“David Blackwood is one of Canada’s most respected visual storytellers. His narrative work reflects the legend, toughness and landscape of Newfoundland- an historic journey not that far removed in essence and time. Blackwood’s… Continue reading
Reincarnation, recycled surfers as swans
who are these four surfer dude-bodhisattva come around again? what does it mean?
Painting Antarctica III – John Kelly
“We are on our way to Rumdoodle. Not the mythical mountain of W E Bowman’s 1956 humorous book, but the dramatic nunatak in Antarctica, close to the Australian base at Mawson, that is… Continue reading
Aerial Footage of Pipeline by Eric Sterman
Eric Sterman films Pipeline from his quadrocopter – an aerial view that is fantastic (that is, if you don’t mind seeing the reef underneath – shudder)
Adrift
Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales, has built a page which calculates the patterns of plastic detritus drift: click on the ocean map at adrift.org.au to place… Continue reading