Good luck! Fingers crossed for some good news 
Great News! - new Marine Protected Area.
OK, well great news for us, maybe you people won't get too excited....
As I may have mentioned before, there's an ongoing strategy in Tasmania of creating Marine Protected Areas, anyway, one of our favourite patches of coastline is up for inclusion in a draft new Bruny Island Bioregion MPA, with differing levels of protection for different areas. It's open for public comment, so a few of us will be writing to the RPDC to give support to the proposals
This is part of the area they are looking at:
Waterfall Bay
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and the map of the areas concerned:
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and the google earth view, to put it into some sort of perspective. (I live in Kingston, work in Sorell).
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If you look at the photo, (Taken looking south from near Eaglehawk Neck/Pirates Bay), you'll see two big sea stacks, known as The Lanterns; they form the promontory poking out eastwards on the southern side of Fortescue Bay, as shown on the map.
This is one of our favourite areas, Fortescue for it's Macrocystis (Giant Kelp) Forest, Waterfall Bay for it's extensive cave systems, drop offs and sponge gardens, off in deeper (30-40M).
I'm really, really pleased about this.
Now alll they need to do is ignore, as far as possible, the bloody fishermen.
This is Cape Pillar
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and this is Tasman Island, with Cape Pillar behind.
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As I may have mentioned before, there's an ongoing strategy in Tasmania of creating Marine Protected Areas, anyway, one of our favourite patches of coastline is up for inclusion in a draft new Bruny Island Bioregion MPA, with differing levels of protection for different areas. It's open for public comment, so a few of us will be writing to the RPDC to give support to the proposals
This is part of the area they are looking at:
Waterfall Bay
and the map of the areas concerned:
and the google earth view, to put it into some sort of perspective. (I live in Kingston, work in Sorell).
If you look at the photo, (Taken looking south from near Eaglehawk Neck/Pirates Bay), you'll see two big sea stacks, known as The Lanterns; they form the promontory poking out eastwards on the southern side of Fortescue Bay, as shown on the map.
This is one of our favourite areas, Fortescue for it's Macrocystis (Giant Kelp) Forest, Waterfall Bay for it's extensive cave systems, drop offs and sponge gardens, off in deeper (30-40M).
I'm really, really pleased about this.
Now alll they need to do is ignore, as far as possible, the bloody fishermen.
This is Cape Pillar
and this is Tasman Island, with Cape Pillar behind.
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Great news, will the diving be affected? The Cies Islands off Vigo Bay are now a marine reserve and divers are very limited where they can dive, If we want to dive off the islands you have to send a three letter page with site, name of divers, qualifications and insurance details- this is a day beofre. On the day you must meet the 'marine guards' on the island, they inspect the paperwork and let you go. Well, at least it's a reserve. I heard a great fact yesterday. Estonia with 300 miles of coastland has ten times the area of marine reserves than the whole of UK! A despicable fact (they should 100 times more! )
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