March 30, 2011

ELVERS IS IN THE HOUSE!

This crazy creature is a baby eel, otherwise known as an elver. He and his buddies swim up running streams all along the east coast of Australia. But they never make it across the Great Dividing Range. It's too steep. And besides, they have to swim all the way back out to sea when they grow up into big eels.

So this means that there are elvers and eels in Running Stream, which flows east, but not in Cunninghams Creek which flows west, even though they are very close to each other. Incredible!
What other streams have eels in them?
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  1. Bruce UptonMarch 31, 2011 at 12:30 PM

    Elvers used to travel upstream and over into the dam via the drainage channels alongside Warragamba Dam. Reverse direction was to wait for high water flow over the spillway and down to the sea.

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  2. AnonymousApril 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM

    The Running Stream flows west, not east. Eels and Elvers are common in McDonald's Hole (including dams) and Oaky Creek. Easy to see at night with a torch or spotlight.

    Guy Sim
    Running Stream

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