Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 19/1/2026
Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
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I saw a salp yesterday. Not a chain of them, just a single one. I’d never seen one before…or maybe never noticed them. Either way it was cool to see.
I didn't even know they were a thing, apparently they are common in NZ too! A few pics on wikipedia for anyone wondering.
Were you in the water or the boat? I'm wondering how easy it was to identify. I've spent a fair amount of time in (recreational) fishing boats and never knew I should be looking for them!
They are really small and not easy to see if they are on their own but I did see it from the boat. It almost looked like a piece of rubbish at first. Just a little clear tube with a red dot. I guess there are different species of salp and I don’t know which one I saw. Apparently their numbers play a role in climate change. They filter carbon from the ocean and prevent it entering the atmosphere.
Yeah, 1 to 10cm, so I can imagine they could be hard to spot.
Apparently salp numbers are increasing, if they thrive in higher carbon environments then that makes sense. Hopefully the impact climate change in a good way.