THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPANTS AND NEW MEMBERS

Hi all this is just a thank you and welcome to new Inaturalists joining our project. Shelly Ocean Swimmers have been thrilled to meet two Inaturalists Sascha and Harry who have been uploading marine species observations for years! How great it has been to meet and actually swim with these two new Inaturalist friends who have helped us identify species and share their vast knowledge of the marine world with us. We really welcome you to the project!.

We have also been so pleased to meet Chrystel who also is starting to swim with us!.
Other Shelly Ocean Swimmers have joined our Inaturalist group.Deb_damsel, who is an ornithologist has been looking for threatened bird species in the Cronulla area and is also about to start using her new TG 5 camera to identify marine species. Lynnefin has already started photographing with her TG5 and is well on the way to helping us identify new species as she has extremely good sea vision. Lizzzielimpet has started to specialise in marine species along the rocky shore and Greg_goatfish also has joined with his goatfish observations. Inaturalists Lucyinthesea, Diana88jingfung, Harry, Pamela_violet, and Pam_darook are still plotting their way to reach our unofficial goal of finding a new species every week. Well done to everyone! Also thanks to the divers and other people who have joined our project such as Ianturnbull, eschlogi and nudie_julz. Nudie julz has provided some great close up shots as she loves nudibranchs.
Identifications are so important and we thank all the people who have helped us. Sometimes we upload our observations and a few minutes later they are identified quickly by amazing inaturalists such as Sachaschulz, Maractwin, fiftygrit, marmcg, henrick, phelsumas4life, marcmcg, danimations, clinton, adammyates,w_martin and many more. Thanks very much and we look forward to new observations from everyone. If any divers read this please feel free to add your observations to our project!

Posted on March 4, 2018 05:25 AM by pam_darook