Weather better than of late i.e warmer and less windy! With very low spring tides, cleaning the P2 underwater camera was straightforward. Underwater visibility excellent and water temperature 8.9C.

The pontoon housing the camera is now very colourful with new growth algae as the new season gets underway. Very few fish about. A few two-spot gobies have been seen recently and a possible black-faced blenny, but no larger fish. The upstream camera revealed a peacock worm, Sabella pavonia, on one of the pontoon legs, the first time this species has been seen on the camera.

A survey along the edge of the channel revealed no shore crabs and no 'billie winter' prawns. However, there was a nice specimen of a slender spider crab, Macropodia sp, most probably deflexa, and many examples of what are believed to be daisy anenomes, Cereus pedunculatus. As usual there were many snakelocks anenomes, Anemonis viridis.