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Had a look at the winding hole, which is about 6 boat lengths ahead.

It's lined in concrete. I could see where boats have scraped and chipped away at it. Some wood beams would be welcome, to protect both the steel boats and the concrete.

Tomorrow I'll turn the boat in there, very slowly, and then head back uphill and south for a full day before deciding: east, west, or further south?

50-year-old discovery in Aussie museum sparks surprising #whale theory.

Little is known about the rare creatures pulled from the #blowhole of a #beached whale in 1973.

A rare #parasite could offer a clue behind a spate of mysterious #strandings of pilot whales.

#Researchers from Australia believe when the long, slimy, #nematodes lodge themselves inside the blowhole it affects the host’s #behaviour.

“Imagine you have thousands of these objects, each of them three to five centimetres long, sitting in that blow hole and just clogging it,” Professor Shokoofeh Shamsi told Yahoo News.

The Charles Sturt University parasite expert and her colleague Dr Diane Barton have developed a theory that the infection in their blowholes could be #disrupting the ability of pilot whales to #navigate and #communicate.

Their investigation was sparked after a vial of unidentified nematodes was rediscovered in the archives of a #Tasmanian
museum, which were originally scraped from the blowhole of a beached pilot whale more than 50 years ago. The outcome of that research has been published in the Journal of Diseases of Aquatic Organisms this month.

#auspol #PilotWhales #MassStrandings

au.news.yahoo.com/50-year-old-

Yahoo News · 50-year-old discovery in Aussie museum sparks surprising whale theoryBy Michael Dahlstrom

Having had two dry(ish) days in #BannauBrycheiniog, it is not surprising that that the third was wet and not by a little. I usually like using my paper maps and #DeadReckoning to #navigate my way around a new place but I forgot to bring my compass on this occasion and so I had to revert to #GPS (don’t tell anyone else) in order to find #SugarLoaf near #Abergavenny. I couldn’t see much else but at least our #hike was 12 km and so it was still worth it.