As summer drew to a close on March 23 we celebrated all things bayside and beautiful with our second Day by the Bay festival....
Category: Arts & Culture
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Amazing adaptations: sleeping beauty of the snowy alps
Upon first laying eyes on the Mountain Pygmy Possum you can be forgiven in thinking that they must be made entirely of fluff. But these little marsupials have much more substance than that...
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Amazing adaptations: does one size fit best?
What possible need could an earthworm have to grow up to three metres long? Or, on the flip side, why don’t all worms get this big...
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Australian eucalypts are a muse for this Japanese-born photographer
My love for eucalypts began when I saw the beautiful colours of the bark on one sunny day in late spring a couple of years ago, while I was walking on the street near my home...
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Shadow, scale and industrial waste in Kylie Stillman’s ‘Eucalypt’
The sculptures of Melbourne artist Kylie Stillman are a prime example of the way that art...
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Amazing adaptations: life below the surface
Have you ever been down in a cave, underground, in the darkness...
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Day by the Bay returns for second event at Point Cook Coastal Park
As the birthplace of the Royal Australian Air Force, Point Cook was once a mostly rural community...
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The melodic seaside sounds and heartfelt community atmosphere of Day by the Bay Mornington
On Saturday 23 February, Mornington locals and visitors were treated to a one-of-a-kind seaside experience...
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Look at Me: in conversation with Benjamin Law
So we’ve all heard about kangaroos, echidnas, wombats, koalas… but what about the weird and wonderful creatures that lurk off our coastlines, live under our deserts and lope about our plains?
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Amazing adaptations: are bigger bee tongues better?
The Blue-banded Bee is arguably Australia's prettiest native bee. Unlike most of our native species, the Blue-banded Bee has a long tongue, adapted specifically for the types of flowers it feeds on...