Marine Wildlife

Peter Benchley, whose 1974 novel "Jaws" turned shark attacks into a national obsession and who later used what he called his "fish story" to help promote oceanic conservation.Mr. Benchley, who even found himself enduring the wrath of Jacques Cousteau, said repeatedly in later years that he regretted making the great white shark into a villain.

Virga is rain that evaporates before it reaches the ground. It appears in streaks or shafts extending from the bottoms of clouds. You often see virga over a desert, where low humidity and high temperatures can cause rain to evaporate high in the sky.

If you described a shark as a toothy torpedo covered in sandpaper, you wouldn't be too far off the mark. It's that rough sandpapery skin that gives sharks their highly efficient swimming abilities, and scientists finally understand why.

Above and Below… you’ll  never know what you might encounter  just below the surface.

Watch a small video clip of the Africa Penguins at Stoney Point.

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest baleen whale and the largest animal that ever lived on Earth

Using an albatross as a central motif for his epic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,