Sometimes, when I am lying on a beach or somewhere, I just want to be left alone and sometimes I quite like people to come and say hello to me – as long as they are nice and treat me properly. I think most humans are the same. So, my team asked Salmon Studios to design a “Do Not Disturb” sign that you might like to make up and put on your bedroom door.

To make your own Henry “Do Not Disturb” Sign, you will need:

• a printer to print out the pdf attached, ideally a colour printer
• a pair of scissors
• glue
• a piece of light cardboard, like the front of a cereal pack.

To make your sign:

• print the pdf
• cut along the solid lines on the edge and fold along the dotted lines
• cut a piece of light cardboard 8.5 cm wide and 25 cm long
• place the pdf face down on a table and carefully glue the cardboard on the back of the “Do Not Disturb” half
• fold the edges onto the back of the cardboard (along the dotted lines)
• fold the “You are Welcome” side over so it covers the other face of the cardboard
• press the whole thing as flat as you can.
• Cut very carefully along the bit that fits over the door knob.

And its all done!

Now you can put your sign on your bedroom door to let people know whether you want company or not. Have fun!

 

Well, I promised to tell you about my new competition – here it is and it is going to be great. All the data from my dive log is now on my website and my Team has added explanations to the graphs so you will know what it all means. If you are really keen on looking at exactly how I dived, you can download the entire dive log and the program to view the log from my “tracking” page. So, I thought for this competition I would test your number skills as well as your reading. Most of the answers to the questions in this quiz are either in my diary entries or in the data - you wont need to download the program for the quiz, its just for those of you who are really interested. The quiz isn’t going to be easy but it is going to be fun and the prizes are terrific.

As you know, my website and my tracker are a joint project between the Department for Environment and Heritage, the South Australian Research and Development Institute, Zoos SA and Project Dolphin Safe. You may recall that for my first competition, DEH provided all the prizes – which were great so this time, in the spirit of the true partnership that this is, the prizes come from Zoos SA. The first prize will be a family membership to Zoos SA for a full year. This means that a family of two adults and two children will have unlimited free access to the Adelaide Zoo so you will be able to visit the Seal Bay exhibit as often as you like for twelve months - and Monarto Zoological Park which is amazing as well. You probably don’t realise this, but zoo membership also gives you access to most of the other major zoos in Australia at no charge – so if you live interstate, enter the competition even if you are not planning to come to Adelaide in the near future. This prize is worth about $200 (depending on the age of the children). Zoos SA have also provided ten family passes to Monarto and ten to Adelaide as consolation prizes. So have a go!

Enter the quiz

The competition will be open for a month from today so will close on Friday 16th May at 5.00 p.m. Just like I did for my first quiz, I will announce the winners in my diary and contact them by email.

Becoming a member of Zoos SA is a great way to help conservation programs in South Australia and to become part of an amazing network of people who really care about threatened species like sea lions.

Good luck with my quiz and don’t forget to make entries on my blog site. I like to know that you are all still out there and still care about me. I hope to see you at Glenelg soon.

Well, after six weeks or so of wearing a satellite tracking device so my Team could monitor my movements and behaviour, the battery are about to run out so I will be anaesthetised shortly to remove the tracker. That means my Team will not know where I am all the time or what I am doing – so they cannot write my diary for me anymore. But, over the past few weeks I have gained a lot of friends who watch out for me. So, instead of the diary, my Team have passed the baton to you. If you see me or have stories about me, or other seals and sea lions, or in fact anything to do with our marine world, please submit them on my blog so everyone knows. Keep checking my website – my Team has some really exciting ideas in store for you. And most of all, thank you for caring about me. While people care about threatened species like sea lions, we have a future.