Nature Blog Network

And now, the thrilling conclusion to part 1 of our series! Will our heros ever find land? Will they blog happily ever after? Will they continue to find wonder the world’s largest ecosystem and share that with a waiting nature blog audience? Find out…next… at the Nature Blog Network, after these important messages.

photo from wikipedia

Included in this section are blogs about the coast as well, which is fairly related to marine blogs anyway and many often straddle the line.

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- Steve Savage writes about the Marine life in Sussex, England at the appropriately named Sussex Marine Wildlife Jottings.  Lots of seal sightings up that way.

- For the discriminating Singaporean nature lover, and I’m largely just assuming that since the site is written in simplified Chinese, come Purple Mangrove, another from a stable of excellent nature blogs from that tiny island.

- Florida’s Space Coast is not only a fascinating destination for the astronomy buff, but the Merritt Island NWR nearby (and created as a potential crash landing spot for space shuttles, yikes!) is merely the centerpiece of a great nature watching infrastructure too, as covered by Space Coast Eco.

- Also from the Space Coast of Florida, and a companion blog to the above, is Space Coast Beach Buzz.  I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention them both.

- Naturefinder find nature by snorkling and writes, then, on ecotourism and human-wildlife issues.  Not a bad gig, really.

- Teng of Idiosyncrasies Reside resides in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which happens to host one of the richest marine ecosystems in the world.

- Many of our coastal blogs hail from Florida, and for good reason when nearly the entire state is fewer than 100 miles from a coast.  Blog the Beach joins a fine lineup, and gets me thinking about next week…

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Florida was the theme of a previous Networking post, and one with a great variety of fantastic blogs.  Many more have joined since then so it’s high time I revisit the Sunshine State, so that’s what I’m doing.  Bloggers who want their sites included can reach me at naswick (at) gmail (dot) com.  I’d love to hear from you!

Also, if anyone has any ideas for themes or places they’d love to see featured, drop me a line!  I’m always looking for great ideas.

Til next week!

Hey, remember that ridiculously ambitious and overlong Kevin Costner vehicle, Waterworld?  In which the entire globe is covered by water as a result of global warming and humanity is thrown into a post-apocalyptic wasteland of floating cities beseiged by nouveau-pirates?  Well, this edition of Nature Blog Networking is just like that, ridiculously ambitious, overlong, and vaguely concerning the ocean.  No word yet on pirates, but anything is possible.

It’s been nearly a year and half since this series took on the wonderful assortment of marine blogs in the NBN.  At the time there were few, but in the time since the number has grown as the Network has grown taking in marine bloggers from around the world in such numbers that I can’t even fit them all into one post.  So taking a lesson from Costner’s folly, I’m splitting them into two weeks so you all don’t get the bends from taking in too many marine blogs.  That’s the NBN difference, folks.

Underwater mountains! photo from wikipedia

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- With the Olympics in full swing, it’s only appropriate that we open things up with some international flavor.  Vista el Mar is based in Spain, a Euro nature blog hub, an can rightly be considered the top Spanish language marine blog in the world.  We’re glad to have it in our community.

- Miriam of The Oyster’s Garter recently up and vamoosed to new digs at Deep Sea News, but if you want to see the kind of writing that got her that deserved promotion, her archives are still available.

- On cold winter days, the last think you probably want to be reminded of is that there are some folks, perhaps in the Caribbean, who bask oceanside in sunshine every day.  Bahama Louie is one of those people.  Season with envy as needed.

- I’m always amazed by phenomenal photographers.  The amazement increases exponentially when faced with a phenomenal underwater photographer.  Set browsers to stun before visiting My Underwater Life.

- Singapore, being an island, offers abundant opportunities for marine ecosystem, and the Tide Chaser takes good advantage of life on this particular island, where nature still exists in the midst of great development.

- Thriving Oceans is a great looking blog filled with useful facts and informed commentary about the state of oceans, particularly as it applies to conservation and policy.

- Mark Powell is not only a blogger in his own right at Blogfish, but creator of the long-running Carnival of the Blue.  Speaking of which, you have your submission ready, right?

- Marine enthusiasts can focus on animal life at the expense of the rest, but never let it be said that the plants don’t also have their fans.  Team Seagrass has that avenue covered but good.

- Australia is well-known around the world for its amazing marine ecosystems.  The NBN offers a window into that fabulous world at Chai’s Marine Life Blog.

- RTSea Blog is another sharp-looking marine site chock-full of fascinating and useful information about the other 75% of the earth and the policies that effect it.  There’s just so much good stuff about how we use the sea out there, we’re lucky so much of it is associated with the NBN.

-  And last, my fellow Carolinians at Southern Fried Scientist, whose blog is a mix of funny and topical of the sort you’d expect from scientists who intentionally coat themselves in a light batter and dip themselves in oil.

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The rest come next week.  Will the pirates show up then?  Who knows, I guess you’ll have to wait and see…