Thursday, 06 May 2021, 07:34 Milla Taljaard (8) shows her iNaturalist App to Felicia Oraai, a security official at the entrance to the Garden Route Botanical Garden, for a free pass last Sunday. Gallery
GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - Nature lovers had the opportunity to explore their surroundings over the weekend and document species of plants and animals via the iNaturalist phone application.
Participants in the 2021 Garden Route City Nature Challenge had four days, from 29 April till 3 May, to upload species with their smartphones.
In George the Garden Route Botanical Garden offered free entrance to visitors who presented their smartphones with the iNaturalist App at the entrance. Those who used this opportunity did so with enthusiasm and took some great pictures of a variety of species.
The photograph showed a small, yellow oceanic fish in the belly of a transparent jellyfish with purple tentacles. And because of its unique depiction of marine life, the picture went viral after publications like Science Alert and National Geographic showed the “curious scene.” The photographs made ripples on social media again in 2021 when The Arts, a lifestyle and culture Facebook page, reshared a 2016 article published by the culture website My Modern Met to its Facebook page. At the time of this writing, the post had garnered more than 80,000 likes.
Snopes contacted the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, which confirmed that the photo was authentic. According to Academy Curator of Ichthyology Luiz Rocha, the fish is a juvenile trevally of the scientific family Carangidae, but it is hard to identify the specific species because “juveniles of that group look very similar.”
S.F. and Los Angeles enter the yellow tier together. How did that happen? By Erin Allday
San Francisco and Los Angeles took wildly divergent paths to arrive at the same coveted place on Tuesday: the yellow tier in California’s reopening blueprint.
Their trajectories couldn’t be more different, and the scale of misery is almost impossible to compare between the two counties. While San Francisco has largely avoided the worst of the coronavirus pandemic’s deadly scourge, Los Angeles County has been crushed, never more so than during the winter surge.
That California’s two most prominent counties arrived in the state’s least restrictive tier on the same day signals a remarkable shift in the pandemic, public health experts said: In the north and in the south, California is on the mend.
San Francisco is joining the yellow tier: Here s what can reopen
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Big news for San Francisco: the city and county is eligible to join the yellow tier this week, according to the California Department of Public Health. I didn t think the yellow tier was ever going to come! says D. Miles Jr., the Godfather of Skate in San Francisco. Miles says his Church of 8 Wheels roller rink will open Friday.
Good news after they tried to unsuccessfully open twice in the orange tier, and were shutdown by the city. Now it s my turn so I m on top of the world today. It s fantastic. We re ready, we re prepared, and the funky good time will continue, says Miles.
The popular nighttime hours on Thursdays at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, complete with cocktail bars and DJs, return starting May 13, in yet another sign of life in SF getting more normal-ish.