"Tuna Wranglers" National Geographic Documenty- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Just letting any Australian visitors to this site that the National Geographic documentary, a one hour special shot here in the waters and air above the Great Australian Bight will be shown this Sunday evening at 19.30 (7.30pm) on Discovery Channel. Any one who is interested in seeing how the bluefin tuna fish are spotted caught caged and harvested can see this film. Hope you enjoy it. 2007-12-06 21:18:48http://www.kiwiwhite.com/article.php?sid=152 Have a happy festive season.- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Dear friends lets hope the festive season find you all well & happy. To hear Santa sing please click on this URL. This is well done. May 2008 be a healthy and successful year to you all. Warmest wishes from Kiwi Robyn & Sophie. http:badaboo.free.frmerryxmas.swf 2007-12-23 17:15:31http://www.kiwiwhite.com/article.php?sid=153 Kiwi Sophie and Robyn- (Found July 15, 2008 ) This is a photo of the White clan. Kiwi Sophie & Robyn at Sophie's graduation at Adelaide University in December 2006. She graduated with two degrees, one in Molecular biology and the second in Linguistics. Sophie returns to Adelaide after Christmas so that she can do her honors and then maybe medicine. Sophie has spent the last 10 months travelling and working over in Europe & Morocco. She is expected to arrive back in Australia in the first week of January 2008. 2007-12-28 23:40:43http://www.kiwiwhite.com/article.php?sid=154 Been very busy in the Cessna 337 out in the Bight off South Australia- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Well most of January has passed us by and for almost a week we have had strong south easterly winds that have created havoc with the bluefin tuna fishing operations. We had a good start to the season and most companies managed to fill some tuna cages in fact some fish are back in Port Lincoln and are being fattened up ready to be sold to the Japanese in the next few months. There has been a very good showing of tuna this year inshore on all the reefs or lumps heap of patches of mainly small...http://www.kiwiwhite.com/article.php?sid=155 AUSTRALIA DAY JANUARY 26 TH 2008- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Hello there friends from around the world I just wanted to let you know that we are celebrating AUSTRALIA DAY it is a national holiday with a long weekend. Many festivals are attended by thousands and it is typical to have an Aussie breakfast on this day it is usually put on by the local city councils. It is a good chance to meet other people from very diverse cultures there are lots of sporting events and a time to relax and enjoy our wonderful country. Click on this site to see some more...http://www.kiwiwhite.com/article.php?sid=156 A rare sight: Blue whales in Great Australian Bight- (Found July 15, 2008 ) To see stories about the Great Blue Whales in the Great Australian Bight please click on the following link. http:www.abc.net.aueyrestoriess1951568.htm We hope you enjoy the story even though it was done last year since the new 2007 2008 tuna season began mid November we have had two more sightings of these beautiful creatures. Well the tuna season has been running for a few months now and it has been a hard slow slog trying to fill the cages with tuna. There is no lack of good schools of...http://www.kiwiwhite.com/article.php?sid=157 Australian tuna season drawing to a close- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Well it is now March and after a terrible run of weather in February where we had strong winds lots of cloud cover rain showers and cold, bingo the weather improved, the sun came out, the clouds went away and the wind dropped and guess what the tuna popped. The last week has been excellent so many patches of tuna came to the surface. All the three catching companies have been filling their cages with excellent size fish. Yesterday 030308 we saw hundreds of patches of tuna out in the Great...http://www.kiwiwhite.com/article.php?sid=158 Clean Seas breeds southern bluefish tuna- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Please click on this link to read the news about Clean Seas Hatchery at Arno Bay South Australia where they have now successfully breed Southern Blue Fin Tuna. Please copy & paste the whole address to access the story. http:www.news.com.auadelaidenowstory0,22606,23316897-913,00.html http:www.theage.com.aunewsbusinessa-star-is-spawn-clean-seas-nets-a-winner200703281174761565767.html http:www.cleanseastuna.com.aucs_environ2.htm 2008-03-03 20:36:17http://www.kiwiwhite.com/article.php?sid=159 Engine failure 122 miles off the coast of Australia- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Well friends around the world just wanted to let you know that the Southern Bluefin tuna has been caught for the 20072008 Australain tuna season. We then went out in the Cessna 337 looking for skipjack tuna and mackerel. About 10 days ago we were called out from Ceduna to one of the purse seine boats to a position 122 nautical miles off the coast. The day was exceptionally hot but the conditions were great it was flat calm on the water even though there was a strong hot north wind blowing...http://www.kiwiwhite.com/article.php?sid=160 Another great surfing trip to Cactus Beach- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Well friends as the tuna season has finished I have had some spare time to go squid fishing and when the weather looked promising for surf up the far west coast of South Australia I contacted friends who said come on up to the beach. It was school holidays and the camping area was full but really it was fine as we had so much surf not big just 3 to 6 feet almost every day with light off shore winds making for excellent surfing conditions. It got a little crowded at times but every one seemed...http://www.kiwiwhite.com/article.php?sid=161 |