User:Velella

Velella was the name of my ancient (1950) Dinghy named after the Genus of marine Cnidarian - Velella - known as "by the wind Sailor".

Velella stranded on a beach

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This user is a frequent visitor to New Zealand.

This huggler fights vandalism so incredibly fast, you can barely see him/her fly by. Are you a huggler yet?

This user has been on Wikipedia for 7 years, 2 months and 11 days.

This editor is a Senior Editor II and is entitled to display this Platinum Editor Star.

200 This user has created 200 of Wikipedia's 3,860,038 articles.

I am an environmentalist, scientist and naturalist retired from a career spent working for the UK Government as an Environmental Scientist. By training I am an aquatic biologist. I have contributed a number of images, most of of which can be seen at - my dormant Wikimedia Common page

My first 5 years of editing were as Velela which is now a dormant account.

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