Both underwater cameras cleaned. Underwater visibility good, water temperature 12.7C. The water temperature is dropping quickly now as the nights get longer and colder and there is less heat in the sun.

Still plenty of fish about with numerous grey mullet and two-spot gobies. The black face blenny is also still seen occasionally. Away from the camera pontoon the number of common gobies has dropped considerably and there are now very few 'billie winters', the prawn Palaemon elegans.

The eel grass die-off has picked up again with the drop in water temperature and a fair amount of it was removed from around the cameras. The inter-tidal camera was half-buried in pebbles following the strong easterly winds of the last few days.

The autumn seaweeds are now growing and the camera pontoon is once again becoming colourful with the different species.

Both of the underwater cameras cleaned. The autumn die-off of Zostera has eased and keeping the cameras cleared is a ...   more »

We would like to thank everyone for their help last Saturday at the Fleet Foreshore Clean. With 13 volunteers we managed to pick up over 18 bags.