{"id":1766,"date":"2023-03-31T17:41:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T07:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2023-03-31T17:41:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T07:41:23","slug":"steve-baines-pisciculturalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/?p=1766","title":{"rendered":"STEVE BAINES PISCICULTURALIST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&#8217;s Guest Speaker was both informative &amp; entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Baines is a native freshwater fish expert, and author of children\u2019s books, who has been a fixture at the Brisbane Exhibition for nearly four decades, presiding over one of the lesser known attractions of \u2018Fish Aquariums\u2019.<br>Born in England he came to Australia as a small boy with his family and immediately took to the creeks and waterways in the Pine Rivers area north of Brisbane. A boyhood hobby turned into a glorious obsession which turned into a lucrative career, as well as earning him a sort of sub cultural celebrity.<br>Steve has lost count of the number of times he has won the highly coveted red, white and blue rosette annually bestowed on the Ekka Pisciculture Competition \u201cGrand Champion,\u2019\u2019 but he knows it\u2019s more than 10.<br>Steve&#8217;s book, &#8216;I Believe in Rainbows&#8217;, aims to educate young children on the need to take care of our local waterways and wildlife, whilst bringing a fun loving bundle of new characters to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"944\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Steve-Baines-944x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Steve-Baines-944x1024.jpg 944w, https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Steve-Baines-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Steve-Baines-768x833.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Steve-Baines-1416x1536.jpg 1416w, https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Steve-Baines-1888x2048.jpg 1888w, https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Steve-Baines-1200x1302.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Guest Speaker was both informative &amp; entertaining. Steve Baines is a native freshwater fish expert, and author of children\u2019s books, who has been a fixture at the Brisbane Exhibition for nearly four decades, presiding over one of the lesser known attractions of \u2018Fish Aquariums\u2019.Born in England he came to Australia as a small boy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/?p=1766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STEVE BAINES PISCICULTURALIST&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotaryclubofbuderim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}