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!
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.
Thank you Henry, I’ve look at your new competition. It’s a challenge. Having problems finding a program to read the dive data. Have downloaded it but windows can’t read it and is searching for a program to view it.
Keep writing your diary, it was a daily joy to read.
By: Barb G on April 15, 2008
at 10:36 am
Hi Barb, you need to read the next paragraph about the program to view and analyse the dive file…go back to where you downloaded the dive file and read the next paragraph. It works a treat for me!
Henry’s Dive Data (Zip File) 2.31Mb – You will need Winzip to unzip the file.
To analyise the data you will need a special program, available from the Widlife Computers website. You can also get the program manual from here.
By: Brett on April 22, 2008
at 6:00 am
I have appreciated the effort put into this site. It has been such a unique opportunity to follow a free, wild creature right here in our own back yard. Will you be tagging anything else in our part of the world?
Also the diary should be made into a book, I loved the style of writing, by adding photgraphs and maps from your site the material is there. It could be sold through the zoo, seal bay, even the mueseum. Thank you again for this wonderful opportunity. from Barb G
I tried writing this on Henry’s website feed back form, I could type in the box back couldn’t send/ post it, no buttons are viewed in the separate feed back window to submit it.
By: Barb G on April 30, 2008
at 9:38 pm
Hi Barb, thanks for your email and for your positive feedback. This site is being run through the enthusiasm of a few key people in DEH, the Zoo and SARDI. We put in a lot of time to get the site running during the period that Henry was being tracked.
We are hoping to showcase the lives of additional marine predators in Adelaide’s coastal waters, but that work requires us to find some money first. We have applied for some funding and hope to hear back about this soon.
We hope to expand Henrys website so it resembles http://www.topp.org, so we are after some funding to build such an impressive site.
Rest assured that we will never lose our enthusiasm for projects like this, which excited and educated so many people (more than 10,000 hits now). We will expand this project and we will continue the Henry website, but all of this will stall for a couple of months.
cheers Brad (on behalf of Henrys team!)
By: Brad on May 5, 2008
at 7:07 am
I have been monitoring this site and henrythesealion.com.au looking for the results of the competition but I cannot find out the winners. The competition is closed and the winners were due to be announced after 16th May well we are now 18th June and there has been no mention or update on either site so what’s happening? hope everything and everyone are okay at your end and we will read more soon.
By: Barb G on June 17, 2008
at 11:05 pm