01/09/1976
Left Cottesloe about 8.45.
Collected small dead Bothriembryon (bulla) beside Cataby Road House. Camped just south of Shark Bay road about 1 mi from turnoff.
02/09/1976
Left camp 8.07, 47097.5 mi.
Turnoff to Tamala and Carrarang, 47124.5 mi.
SB1; Stopped at top of hill (old dune), 47125.4 mi. 2 spp. Bothriembryon dead, 1 specimen Paralaoma, 2 or 3 pupoids ([?] sinistral), Austrosuccinea.
SB2; Stopped at turnoff to Tamala Stn. Collected camaenids and Succinea dead and alive attached under stones.
SB3; Prickly Point (Baba Head coast NS on E side of Point). Bothriembryon large[?], Theba - alive, Succinea - alive. No oysters alive, saw dead shells on beach - amasa, some fossil in rock some[?] dead attached. Shells on beach cardiids, cuttlebones, lots of chamids (may all be fossil) - rock very fossiliferous with lots of species.
SB4; SE of Baba Head opposite islands - area shown on chart as shallows but really birridas with higher strips[?] between - no oysters or traces, shells on beach - cardiids, 3 or 4 spp. cerithiids, 2 spp. venerids, 3 sp. mytilids (looks hypersaline).
SB5; N of Carrarang Hstd on Carrarang Pen. (W side of). No oysters - few dead shells under beachrock (looks hypersaline).
SB6; Near Kangaroo I. (shown as N. Kangaroo I. on map), W side of Carrarang Peninsula, Shark Bay WA. Oysters S. commercialis living in small numbers on beach rock and [?].
Stayed at Carrarang Station.
03/09/1976
Left Carrarang.
SB7; Attempt to reach Crayfish Bay - failed. Collected some Bothriembryon fossils on sand dunes. Went back to Kavattis[?] Levee and took road to south to False Entrance.
SB8; False Entrance -went to beach and then to hill and cliffs at south. Some holiday makers gave some oysters (amasa) and collected some from rocks at about HWL.
SB9; S. of Sunday I. amasa and commercialis.
SB10; Rocky I. SSW of C. Ransonnet. Kelly Wright's Camp - amasa only. 26°9'50"S 113°11'50"E, Rocky I. on S side of South Passage, Shark Bay, WA (#SSW of C. Ransonnet).
SB11; opp. C. Ransonnet. None collected, all amasa.
SB12; Mangroves at part where Steep Point road leaves shore (on a [?]) - no mangrove oysters only commercialis type.
Stayed at nurse's quarters (Surgery) [at or near home of Fletcher's or Smith's?].
04/09/1976
SB13; Looked at oysters on rocks to south of Smith's (between township and camping area) - only dead shells - commercialis type.
SB14; Looked for oysters on Slope Island (at end of loading causeway) - couldn't see any.
SB15; Went up Peninsula to W of Useless Loop - to old pearling station - all dead - only commercialis.
SB16; Went to Camping area S of town, near Ante I., only commercialis alive. (someone had chipped them off) on rocks below HWL - not on beach rock or on small cliffs.
SB17; Stopped about 203 miles from Tamala turnoff at 1400hr (47303.8 mileage). Small pupoids, sinistral pupoids, Paralaoma, and Bothriembryon - freshest shells (all dead) under ploughed up spinifex beside ploughed drains.
SB18; stopped 47306.7 mi., dead Bothriembryon 2 spp. Lunch.
SB19; 4.30pm stopped 47314.5 mi. Dead Both. 1 live Succinea. Plenty of dead Both. eaten by mammal and lizard. Pupoids 2 sinistral, 1 dextral.
Turnoff to Tamala-Carrarong from Shark Bay Road 47320.9 mi.
Hamelin Pool, 6.15pm, 47339.6 mi. Camaenids, Pupoids.
05/09/1976
Departed Berrin Berrin ? at 8.00am. Stopped S of Station entrance at 8.30 (47441.8 mi) to look for snails in conifer - sand area - no snails at all. (pines, calothamnus, acacias, low scrub, sand hills). Stopped near 397 mile peg (47455.2 mi) - tall eucalypts - medium shrubs (acacias etc).
Stopped Geraldton - Fishermans Harbour. Oysters - Astrea under sheltered stones at mid-low water level. Siphonarias from antes[?] (small bag) and inner side of small [?] off main breakwater. Osyers also found on inner side.
Stopped (lunch) Irwin R. crossing S of Dongara. Theba and Cochlicella acuta.
Stopped on Eneabba Road (47617.1 mi) N of Eneabba. Limestone hill- acacia scrub (about 10-12'), only dead Succinea in deep damp litter.
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