Bay Harbour: November 09, 2016

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PAGE 6 BAY HARBOUR Wednesday November 9 2016 News Learn to save the whales • By Annabelle Dick A PROGRAMME aimed at teaching people how to save whales will come to Sumner later this month. Project Jonah is an animal welfare charity that rescues stranded mammals, holds awareness campaigns and education seminars, and acts as a watchdog for water species. Project Jonah also teaches residents how to save whales if they see them washed up. “Saving whales isn’t as easy as it looks. A stranding site is a dangerous place and people can sometimes make mistakes,” Project Jonah general manager Daren Grover said. “It’s important that people understand the complexity of strandings, why they happen and what they can do to help.” In June this year, Project Jonah and the Department of Conservation helped a stranded whale on Waimairi Beach back into the water. Project Jonah is holding first aid training at Sumner Beach on Saturday, November 26 and Sunday, November 27. Give well Fearless Fraser gives it a go Stand-up paddle boarding combines rowing with surfing and is a great workout as reporter Fraser Walker-Pearce experienced when he was asked to have a go at the growing sport. He joined in on a lesson at the Naval Point Club Lyttelton I DON’T know how you spent your Saturday morning, but I spent mine desperately scrambling back out of Lyttelton Harbour. Now, don’t feel too sorry for me, it was actually my choice to be there in the first place. I was invited out by the good folks at Naval Point Club Lyttelton to try my hand at stand-up paddle boarding with a class they had put on. Stand-up paddle boarding gets you standing on a surf board with a paddle and rowing yourself around. It’s a combination of surfing and kayaking. I joined in with a group of three girls, all of whom had never tried paddle boarding before, and we began learning this Christmas the ways of the waves on land at first, then in the harbour with our two tutors, Alan and Tyler. Alan thrust at me the longest paddle board and paddle, along with the smallest life jacket – FULL OF FOCUS: I was determined not to let the harbour get the best of me – but in the end it did. PHOTO: SUP FANATIC some sort of new pack thing, which wraps around your hips. He joked, “you can swim right? Here you are.” “Great” I thought. We knelt on our boards and learned how best to tackle the rolling waves of the harbour and the easiest way to get the most out of our paddles and then we hit the water. We started out in the shallows on our knees and, as we grew in confidence (my first mistake), we paddled deeper and stood up. Alan showed us how to turn on a dime and move up and down the board with ease. But it was when he asked us to stand down the tail end of the board that it all fell to pieces for me. I slowly shimmied my way down the board, ensuring my knees were bent and my eyes forward. But I went too far. In an instant, I felt the board’s nose lift and the tail drop, my balance was all out, and before I could yell out, I was over and my nose and tail were wet. There’s no shock quite like being completely dry one second and then completely submerged in Lyttelton Harbour the next. Thankfully, there’s no photographic evidence that I fell in. •The NPCL host stand-up paddle boarding lessons every Saturday from 9am to noon. For more information, phone the club on 328 7029. 1. FRAGRANCE Gifts For him 1. Ralph Lauren Polo Black EDT 30ml $39 RRP $49 2. Ralph Lauren Polo Blue EDT 30ml $39 RRP $49 3. Yves Saint Laurent L’Homme EDT 60ml $79 RRP $109 4. Diesel Only The Brave EDT 75ml $89 RRP $133 1. 2. For her 2. 3. 3. 1. Revlon Charlie Red EDT 100ml $19.99 RRP $22 2. Vanderbilt EDT 100ml $22.99 RRP $27 3. Revlon Charlie Blue EDT 100ml $19.99 RRP $22 4. Maroussia EDT 100ml $24.99 RRP $30 5. Elizabeth Arden Mediterranean EDP 60ml $29 RRP $31 6. Elizabeth Arden Red Door EDT 50ml $39 RRP $79 7. 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Wednesday November 9 2016 BAY HARBOUR PAGE 7 Harbour research praised • By Annabelle Dick LYTTELTON PEOPLE want more research done on the harbour’s reefs. More than 50 people attended a meeting to discuss research findings by Dr Tommaso Alestra (left) and Dr Mads Thomsen, of Canterbury University’s marine ecology research group, about the harbour’s reef biodiversity and an invasive Japanese algae. “The level of attention, engagement and participation was impressive. We were asked lot of interesting questions and we received lot of interesting feedback,’ Dr Alestra said. “I didn’t want this to be a lecture, but a two-way conversation and I’m glad that it went exactly that way.” Last year, Environment Canterbury asked the marine ecologists to write a report on intertidal reefs, the area above water at low tide and under water at high tide. The pair went around the harbour’s rocky reefs looking at what was there, what species were there like algae and ECO-SYSTEM: Research on Lyttelton Harbour’s reefs has prompted residents to ask for more. animals and how abundant they were. “Extensive research on these reefs has never been done before,” Dr Alestra said. Dr Thomsen researched the seaweed Undaria pinnatifida and looked at how it affected other marine organisms. “We found that Undaria is not so terrible to the other algae and they co-exist quite nicely, so it’s interesting to see such an abundance of Undaria that doesn’t seem to have a great impact on other algae,” Dr Alestra said. He said more research has been encouraged locally, as residents asked whether the rocky reef monitoring will be repeated and if new sites will be looked at. “I am a long-term resident (and was) surprised to hear that areas of the harbour are relatively healthy. We need to ensure ongoing monitoring,” John McLister, of Diamond Harbour, said. “When research is undertaken in an area that you love, you want to learn of the results,” Port Hills Labour MP Ruth Dyson said. Dr Alestra said the meeting provided an opportunity to combine science and local knowledge on the harbour. “The turn out is testament to the love and interest the community has in the health of the harbour. There is a strong need for ongoing monitoring of the health of the harbour into the future,” Dr Alestra said. The pair have had discussions with Ecan about undertaking more research. Freedom campers go • By Annabelle Dick FREEDOM CAMPERS have been banned from Windsport Park, French Farm and Wainui foreshores. Last week the city council approved the amendments to the Freedom Camping Bylaw to permanently ban freedom camping from those sites. They’ve also been banned from Addington Park and the Lower Styx River Mouth. But the amended bylaw will allow certified, self-contained freedom camping, without a time restriction, in rural zones. Fifty-five out of 72 public submissions expressed general support for changes that would see freedom camping banned at the sites. French Farm was closed to the public in March due to contamination from overflowing septic tanks and had up to 41 vehicles on site at any time, while Wainui had up to nine. A $19,435 city council-commissioned report found that the 4760-litre septic tank at French Farm was only capable of serving a maximum of 23 people each day while the 4000-litre septic tank at Wainui could only serve 19. The new rules come into effect from December 1. Spotted any lonely cones? There are a lot of lost, lonely road cones out there. We want to bring them home. We’re tidying up the streets as the SCIRT programme winds down. Please help us track down stray cones no longer on the job. We’ll put them back to work, or send them off to the giant cone melting pot in the sky. The CONEMOBILE is coming your way. SCIRT’s CONEMOBILE is hitting the streets to collect any road cones that have gone astray. Let us know if you’ve spotted a lost or wayward cone. Call the CONEMOBILE 0800 SCIRT CONE - 0800 7247 82663 email info@scirt.co.nz or visit Facebook/com/scirtcone Your support is helping us to get the job done. Thank you from the SCIRT team. Programme funded by
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