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DISCOVER

PORT PHILLIP:

WATER & WILDLIFE STORIES

Explore our free ebooks below.

Discover Port Phillip: Water & Wildlife Stories is a five-part ebook series created by the Dolphin Research Institute with support from the Port Phillip Bay Fund. These free, story-driven ebooks highlight the incredible marine life and environments of Port Phillip, aiming to connect the community with what lives in our own backyard.

Our social research shows that only 44% of people believe their actions impact the environment. Through engaging stories, each ebook connects readers with Port Phillip’s natural wonders — aiming to shift perspectives and inspire care for our precious bay through everyday actions that support conservation.

Each story includes links to local citizen science programs, conservation projects, and ways to get involved — helping to build a community that values and actively protects our precious Bay.

EBOOK 1: MARINE MEGAFAUNA

You may view the ebook as a Flipbook or enter your details to receive an email with a download link. This ebook includes:

  1. Bony fishes – blue throat wrasse, ornate cowfish, Victorian scalyfin, weedy sea dragon & southern blue devil fish
  2. Rays – stingaree, fiddler ray & smooth ray
  3. Sharks – Port Jackson shark, gummy shark, seven-gill shark, wobbegong & blue shark
  1. Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
  2. Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
  3. Australian fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)
  4. Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
  5. Killer whale (Orcinus orca)

EBOOK 2: SEABIRDS & SHOREBIRDS

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  1. Little pied cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos)
  2. Little penguin (Eudyptula minor)
  3. Australasian gannet (Morus serrator)
  4. Greater crested tern (Thalasseus bergii)
  1. Pacfic gull (Larus pacificus)
  2. Hooded plover (Thinornis rubricollis)
  3. Sooty oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus)
  4. Black swan (Cygnus atratus)

EBOOK 3: HISTORY & LANDMARKS

You may view the ebook as a Flipbook or enter your details to receive an email with a download link. This ebook includes:

  1. Naarm
  2. The Rip
  3. Pope’s Eye
  4. The South Channel & Fort
  1. Swan Bay
  2. Mud Islands
  3. Fossil Beach
  4. Ricketts Point

EBOOK 4: ROCKING UP SOON…

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