2-V-81 cont.
SB#D1: ENE of Red Cliff Point - 24°52'S 113°17.5'E; 13.5 fathoms; rectangular net dredge; 1515hrs (8 minutes at about 1 knot); 180°; bottom of sand & shell rubble. Live & dead Melo(juvenile), Dentalium ? javanum (large, greenish) D. sp (4 cornered) D. sp (8? cornered), Sunetta, Circe, Tellina (red ranged) & Crassatellids. dead Amusium(+++), Annachlamys ++++, Plicatula ++, Circe ++, Crassatella +, Pecten +, Chlamys +, Dosinia +. Decatopecten +, Paphia, Strombus campbelli, Ancilla, Anadora, Carditid, Nassariid, Solecurtus, Euchelus, Neotrigania, Monilea, Trisides etc.
2-V-81 cont.
SB#D2: a little S of D1. ENE of Red Cliff Point, Bernier I; 24°53.3'S; 113°17.5'E; 11.5 fathoms dredged; 1546 hrs (8 minutes at about 1 knot 180°); bottom of sand & shell rubble, a little seagrass & algae, worm tubes, few sponges & starfish (Astropecten).  Live Chlamys +++, Dosinia, Circe, Pinna,  Neotrigania, Anadara, Fragum, Crassatella, Liotia, ?fasciolariid, Trisides, Paphia, Placamen, Tapes, Amusium. dead pyramidellids, buccinids (?), mitrids, Crassatella, Annachlamys, Glycymeris, Circe, Venerids ++, Ostrea folium.
2-V-81
SB#D3: E of Red Cliff Pt, Bernier I; 24°54'S; 113°17.75'E; 12.25 fathoms; 1624 hrs (10 minutes at about 1 knot 170°); bottom of sand, shell rubble & shells. live & dead Chlamys, Amusium, Neotrigonia, Crassatella, muricid, Strombus campbelli, Anadara, Placamen, Circe, Tellina, Liotia, Dentalium ? javanium, small Pinna. dead Annachlamys, Paphia or Callista, Antigona, ? fasciolariid, Pecten, Cardita, Glycodonta ?, Mactrid, ? Psammobiid (large bright yellow), tellins (many spp.), Decatopecten, Plicatula, venerid, Ostrea folium ?. We stopped for the night in the shelter of Red Cliff Pt - one other boat was there - yacht - sloppy with swell swinging around corner.
3-V-81
Travelled S to an area off Castle Point, Dorre I.
SB#D4: ENE of Castle Pt, Dorre I; 25°07.2'S; 113°07.9'E; 6.5 fathoms; 0922 hours (10 minutes at approx 1 knot, 170°), bottom of sea grasses (Posidonia & Amphibolus - full net!). live Ethminolia ++++, Cantharidus ++++. Chitons (few), Cardiid (fragile), Chlamys, Naticids, Cronia, Pterynotus, Turbo (bright turquoise & brown soft parts), pyramidellids (2 spp), turrids, Phasianella (2 spp?), Euplica (v few), Amusium, Tapes, Fragum, oysters (Ostrea folium?), v. juvenile Annachlamys, live Hapalochlaena (? maculosa) & Octopus sp (greenish -> brownish). dead: Decatopecten, Plicatula, Pinna (?live), Chione or (Glycodonta), Cardita, mitrids, Venerids (Pitarinae), naticid (large, banded), Bulla, cardiid (fragile).
3-V-81 (cont).
We then went a little south to where the echo sounder showed more shallow & uneven bottom & had a diving station.
SB#5 (diving): E of Castle Point, Dorre I; 25°08'S; 113°08'E, 11m; ?1200 hours; sand, scattered sea grasses (Posidonia & Halophila (large wide leaf)) lots of worm tubes few clumps of coral (v small) with crabs in them. 1 curious sea snake around my legs. Oysters on Turban & Trochus shells. Chlamys on worm tubes. Decatopecten on surface, Glycodonta(?) on surface (& molar?), Hapalochlaena ?maculosa, Melo (large), Astropecten crawling over surface, Pterynotus, Agneusia, buccinids, lots of buried heart urchins & few biscuit urchins, lots of regular urchins (3 spp). good dive. Afterwards processed amterial - moved S to N tip of Dirk Hartog I, E of C. Inscription - motor on rubber dinghy woudln't behave - Clay & John (engineer) worked on it. Anchored off beach for night. Light over stern attracted squid (?Loligo) - changed colour fron transparent blue to white with pink stripe to bright rose to orange.
4-V-81
After finishing the processing of yesterdays material Clay, Loisette & I went up to & around C. Inscription in Zodiac & then came back to just E of the Cape.
SB#6: Cape Inscription; 25°29'S; 112°58.7'E, 3-5m; ?1030 hrs, diving sand with coral & limestone reefs. There was a strong SE wind blowing & a strong current from the east. Reef much dissected, rising from a mobile sandy bottom abruptly to limestone reefs about 2m higher - plenty of coral, soft corals some algae (Asparagopsis & other reds plus a very little Caulerpa - flat serrated "leaves") [sketch of caulerpa]. Some gorgonias under ledges (3 spp?) some hydrozoous Stylaster & some stinging hydroids hytocorpus etc with small pteriids attached. P. zebra & a small "Austropteria" on a hydroid with colonial anemones growing periodically all over it. Live molluscs: "Pteria" zebra (see above), Austropteria (see above), Chamids, Spondylids. many Ostrea folium ++++ (under ledges), Hyotissa hyotis ++ (some large none detached some under ledges & some ontop of reefs), Hyotissa sp ? (only 1 seen not coll.), Tonna ? chinensis in sand under rock, collumbellids ++ (short squat rounded), fasciolariids, mitrids 2spp, Mitra ticaonica, Turbo pitholatus (smooth), Tectus + (on top of reefs), Tridacna maxima ++++ on top of reefs, Streptopinna, Pinctada albina ++, Clanculus (black), Astele ? not a sponge but among oysters & comp[?] asc. & sponges, Nudibranch, Lamellariid (large) not L. niger, Haliotis squamata, Lithophaga under oysters, Hiatella oysters under encrusting comp. ascidians, Malleus, Isognomon, Coralliophila violacea, C. cosbilaris, Colubrellina granularis (correct name!), Barbatia lusca, Latirulus turritus, Mancinella mancinella, Pisania (?fasciculata), Cypraea teres, Conus lividus, Conus ? frididus (parvulus?) but WA!, Ostrea tuberculata on coral & rocks on top of reef 10, Pteria penguin. dead only: Trapezium bicarinatum, Cypraea ovibraria, Thais echinata!
4-V-81 cont.
I had gone ashore just on E side of Cape to collect beach drift. Plenty Tridacna maxima, Barbatia fusca, Barbatia ? helblingii, Tectus pyramis, Turbo (Marmarostoma) pulcher, Haliotis varia, Patellanax (Scutellastra) laticostata, Patelloida, Siphonaria, Nerita atramentosa, Cerithium, Hipponyx, Dicathais textilosa, Cronia avellona, Cantharus, Nassa francolina, Conus dorreensis, Colubrellina, Cypraea cribraria, Conus sp (large) 2 blue bands, Conus sp (small white), Modiolus, Pinctada margaritifera, Saccostrea cuccullata. ?Cardita, Spondylus sp., Periglypta orange teeth, Ventricolaria toreuma, Septifer, Coralliophila violacea, Mancinella mancinella, Ostrea folium, Cypraea helvola, Cypraea corneola, Coralliophila violacea, Strombus mutabilis, Cypraea caputserpentis, Conus glans.
4-V-81 cont.
After having one dive we decided to move eastwards (towards the Flinders) for a second dive. However the motor wouldn't start & after Clay had just about wrenched his innards out we hoisted a distress flag - a bouyancy vest on an oar - the "Flinders" saw us & came along so that Clay could row us out to them (after some problem in getting the anchor free). With the wind quite strong (15-20 knots S Easterly) we decided to skip another diving station plus the trawling stations & dredging & shore stations we had planned on the E side of Dirk Hartog I & we came directly down to Cape Bellefin where we anchored - just to the west of the point - for the night. Processed the material - too rough on the way down - in fact I was seasick - reasonably sheltered anchorage. 
5-V-81
We went a little SW from overnight stop to approximate position of Hamburg Expedition #22 (& took dredge & trawl samples).
SB#7 dredge: Cape Bellefin, Shark Bay WA; 26°2.25'S 113°16.6'E; 6-6.25fm (9 minutes at abt 1 knot, 210°); 0853 hrs; grey mud & shell grit - cod end of dredge was very heavy with grey mud - seived & washed this - samples retained of seivings - only live molluscs were tellins (1 or 2 spp) & a Solemya, live crabs were taken with long eye stalks - some worms & tubes. Dead shells: Tellins, Lucinids, ?Mactrids, Psammobiids, Solemya, cerithiids, ressoids, trochids - fragments, mytelids - fragments, naticids.
5-V-81 cont.
SB#8 (trawl): Cape Bellefin, Shark Bay, WA; 26°2.25'S 113°16.6'E; (10 minutes at abt 1 knot, ) 0928 hrs; trawled c try net. little algae (Laurencia) & sea grass (Posidonia) possibly (floating) detached. fish - assorted bottom spp, Squilla, Prawn - King, remains of jellyfish, squid Loligo.
SB#- diving: We were going to make a diving station here but Clay was first in & reported vv soft bottom - no visibility - no biota seen. So we changed our plans & proceeded NW towards Hamburg expedition #28 on E side of Dirk Hartog I. On the way we took a try net trawl in the channel. 
SB#9: WNW of Cape Bellefin; 29°59.25'S 113°14.8'E; 8 fathoms. fish, 2 spp holothurian, 1 squid (Loligo)
5-V-81 cont.
SB#10: E of Homestead Pt, Dirk Hartog I, Shark Bay, WA. Silty sand with worm(?) & fish(?) holes - no alga or sea grasses, few dead shells (v. poor visibility approx. 10cm). Gafrarium (live), Circe, Cultellus, Dosinia, Tapes, Pinna, Solecurtid, Paphia, Acrosterigma, Cardid fragile, Corbula (live), tellinid (small), bivalve ? family, thaid?, mytilid, Cerithiis Bittium?, Monilea, Strombus campbelli, Cantharus, Nassarius (live).
5-V-81 cont.
SB#11: E of Homestead Point, (Dirk Hartog I) Shark Bay WA; dredge; sand, gravel & shell grit & broken shells. dead (except where stated), Anadara antiquata(?) semifossil?, Tapes, Dosinia, Paphia, Pecten, Gafrarium, Circe, psammobiid, Anadara sp (wide spaced ribs), Solecurtid & alive, Cobula & alive, Culttelus & alive, Mytilid, Tellin sp. & alive, Thraciid ? (nacreous inside), ?Tellin sp., Pinna (fragile), Fragum fragum, Cerithiid Bittium?, Cantharus ?, Monilea, Nassarius & alive, tellin sp., Mactrid.
5-V-81 cont.
SB#12: dredge. Penecillius, Halophilla & perhaps Posidonia. Live: Gafrarium ++, Monilea +, Cantharidus, Ectosium, Chione (Glycodonta) marica ++, Chitons. Dead: Tapes, Tellina (Tellinella), Tellina sp1, Pilarinae, Paphia, Naticid, Solecurtid, Tellinids abt 3 more spp, Circe.
5-V-81 cont.
SB#13: diving; silty sand c Halophila CB. Live: Polinices conicus, Turbo, Gibbula?, parasitic Eulinid on Astropecten preissi, Chiton, Aglaja. Dead: Tapes, Pinna (?Atrina)
5-V-81 cont.
SB#14: Nodilittorina, Morula, Nassarius, Cerithiid, Trochid, Stomatella, Chitons, Bulla ampulla, Fragum unedo, Acrosterigma reeveanum, Pecten, Pinctada albina, Tapes 2 spp?, Strombus campbelli, Vulsella live, Mytilidae 2 spp? live 1 intertidal 1 subtidal, Haliotis squamata, Mactrid, Fragum fragum, Antigona live, Cronia live, Cantharidus live, mitrid, Gena live, Parcanassa, Herpetopoma live, Drupa? live, Pinctada (few) live), lurrid, chiton, leptonids from oysters, S. cuccullata lower sae with sharp edge postero-ventrally S commercialis sl. higher (& overlap) (same c very dark lips to lower valve), Cerithium aluco? (white ribbed), Septifer - intertidal under rocks, Planaxis - high intertidal - Cerithiid - black & grey, Monodonta labio - high intertidal. Plants: - inshore - fine seagrass Zostera? Sargassum V fine - v small balls. Zonaria, a little offshore Amphibolus. 
6-v-81
Left overnight station NW of C Bellefin & Clay, Louisette & I went in Zodiac around sand bank (ie N & E & then S) into Useless Inlet. - we were very slow because only one cylinder of outboard was working , & also very cold because of waves & stray wind from SE.
SB#15: Useless Inlet, Shark Bay WA; approx 3m; mixed bottom (Posidonia - Laurencia weed beds, sand patches c sponges & bryozoa, & sand & shell fragments); 3 dredgings of approx 5 mins each from 0947-1025 hrs.; (344 on C. Bellefin, 158 on C. Heirisson, 155 on Rocky Headland on Heirisson Prom.); Catch of sponges, compound ascidians, long dead Breynia, bryozoan clumps & serpulid worms (fine). Molluscs: live; Turbo (turquoise), Cantharidus, Cerithiid (Biltium?), Gafrafrium, Chitons, Carditid, Fragram hemicardium, Cantharus, slipper limpet. Dead only; Cultellus, Solecurtid, Circe sulcata alscripta, Tellina (Tellimella?), mytilid, Anadara, Fulvia (fragile), Tapes, tellinids (small 3 spp?), Corbula, Pitarine (Callista?), drupe, Pecten (long dead), Bassina. Also took some small leatherjackets & some small ? scorpionids
SB#16 Useless Inlet, Shark Bay, WA, off Bellefin Peninsula; sand bank with shells & shell rubble & limestone rubble. 2 dredgings. Astropecten. Molluscs: live; Bassina, Cerithium fasciatum, vermetids, venerids (Chion juv.), carditids, Circe, Naticids. dead only; Tellina (Tellinella?), Tellina spp (3?), Ostrea sp (?folium), Dosinia 2 spp, Pinctada albina, Gafrarium, Fragum hemicardium, ?Thraciid, Divaricella, mytilid, Callista, Circe, Chama, Pitarinid!, Gomphina (long dead), Carditid (long dead), Fragum erugatum, Dentalium (smooth), Crepidula.
SB#17: Chennel at N end of Useless Inlet, Shark Bay WA (between Hamburg Exped. #18 & #19); approx 6m; box dredge; 3 dredging each of 5 minutes from 1145hrs to 1210hrs; shell rubble, sponge, soft coral & sea grass; (C. Bellefin 328°, C. Heirisson 381°); Sea grass - flat, opp. branches; Molluscs: live taken; Chama sp, Corbula, ?slipper limpets? (round, conical), Scutus - juvenile, Herpetopoma, Chitons, ? Ostrea. dead taken only; Chlamys. Annachlamys, Pecten, Paphia ,Tapes, Costacallista, Circe sp (?scripta)(2 spp?), Anadara, Decatopecten, Pilcatula, Antigona(?), Gafrarium, Turbo, mytilid, cardiid, Liotia, Pterynotus, Antigona lamellaris, Stomatella, Cantharidus.
SB#18: Useless Inlet; Shark Bay WA - shallow bank on W side of N end of Heirisson Prong (E of SB#17); 1m; guilty[quilty?] sand with Posidonia, Amphibolus & Penecillus beds; 5 minute dredge, 1220 hors; direction 270° approx. Molluscs: live taken; Pinctada albina (adult & juv.), Fragum hemicardium, Cerithium fasciatum, Gafrarium, mytilid (large), Chama, Chiton, Lamellaria. dead taken only; Ostrea folium, Tellina staurella, Tellina (3 spp), Bassina/Placamen, Pinna, Strombus campbelli, Euplica, Circe 2 spp?, Liotia, Crepidula, Tapes, drupe, Cantharidus, vermetid, Carditid (2 spp), mytilid (small ribbed), Turbo (turquoise), Laternula fragment, Dentalium, turrid.
SB#19: At entrance to Useless Inlet, Shark Bay, WA - (between C. Heirisson & C. Bellefin; 3m; Box dredge, 2 dredging of 5 minutes each between 1324 & 1339 hrs; sand & weed (dead Posidonia, live flat sea grass, v little Halophila, Penecillus), Temnopleuras alexandria, Stichopus (red brown). Molluscs: live taken; Strombus campbelli, Turbo (turquoise), Gafrarium (juv. & adult), Chlamys, Fragum hemicardium. dead taken only; Tellina spp (3?), solecuritid, mytilid (2 or 3 spp), Tapes, Paphia, Carditid, Tellina (Tellinella), Cerithium (? Bittium), Ostrea sp., Solecurtus, Euchelus, Euplica, Monilea, Cerithium fasciatum.
See sheet c details of Hamburg Exped. Stations
SB#20: E of Sunday I, off Dirk Hartog I, Shark Bay WA; 26°7.5'S; 113°14.4E; (?slightly N of Hamburg Exped. #26); 2m; 1550 hours onwards; sand & shell rubble; Weed (Laurencia, Caulerpa (long grapes), dead Posidonia; box dredge. Molluscs: live taken; Cantharidus ++++, Euplica ++, Liotia ++, Turbo (turquoise). dead taken only; Cerithium fasciatum, Ancanthopterus, Fragum hemicardium, naticid, pyramidellids (2 spp), Strombus cambelli, Terebra, turrids, Umboniid (Ethminolia?), Cerithium (?Bittium), Towna, Crepidula, Cronia, Fulvia, Tellina (Tellinella), Circe, Tellina sp, Glycodonta, Grafrarium, Carditid, Tapes, ?Pinna, Ostrea.
SB#21: W of Sunday I, off Dirk Hartog I, Shark Bay, WAl 26°7.5'S 113°14.0'E;2-3m; sand & weed (Amphibolus, Sargassum, Laurencia, Asparagopsis, Caulocystis) & shell fragments; 1623 hrs onwards; weed (Amphibolus, Caulocystis, Laurencia, Asparagopsis). Molluscs: live taken; Cronia, Turbo (turquoise), Cantharidus sp1 ++++, Cantharidus sp 2, Euplica ++ (2 spp?). dead taken; Bulla (2 spp), Crepidula, Liotia, Tectus pyramis, Gomphina undulosa, Pinna juv. fine ribbed, carditid, Fulvia, Ostrea sp?
SB#22: W of Sunday I, off Dirk Hartog I, Shark Bay, WA - in sheltered shallow bay; 26°7.5'S 113°14.2'E, sand & weed (Laurencia, Eucheuma (fine) Boodlea, & crustose coralline clumps. weed (Laurencia, Boodlea) Archaster angulalis, Plesiastrea versipera. Molluscs: live taken; Pinna, Naticid (2 spp), Euplica, Liotia, Cantharidus 2 spp, Monitea, Turbo (turqouise), Strombus campbelli. dead taken only; mytilids ( 1 mooth, 1 ribbed), Gafrarium, Tellina 2 spp, Chlamys, Tapes, Tellina (Tellinella), Fragum erugatum, Bassina, Glycodonta, Fragum hemicardium, Ostrea sp., Septifer, Chloridiloma zeus, Cerithium fasciatum, pyramidellid, Cerithium (?Bittium), Aulicina nivosa, Cypraea caputserpentis.
At afternoon radio sched John radioed Perth with telegram for WAM requesting sending power pack & for 25hp motor. We then went back to ship - skirting point opposite Sunday I. - undercut jagged limestone cliffs - only oyster seen was Saccostrea cuccullata & this in abundance forming a small ledge. The live Dicathais lextiliosa was taken firmly attached to (& possible boring into) oyster. This whelk was quite smooth - only slightly shouldered & noduled. Ship sheltered off Homestead Point, Dirk Hartog I. for night.
7-V-81
Clay, Louisette & I left early in Zodiac with 9hp motor belonging to F↑W.
SB#23: N of Homestead Point, Dirk Hartog I, WA; 25°58.25'S, 113°11.0'E; at edge & onto sand & weed bank; 1-5m, 4 dredgings of 5 minutes each between 0836 hts & 1015 hrs. Variable bottom - sand & coral rubble - algal beds (Laurencia & algal turf) - weed beds (Posidonia Amphibolus & Halophila); Pentacta anceps, Archaster juvenile, Breynia fragment, Protoreaster. Molluscs: live taken; Phasianella, Cerithium fasciatum, Cerithium sp (black & white), Strombus campbelli, Euplica, Cantharidus (2 spp?), Rhinoclavis vertagus, Pinctada albina, Chama +++, Gafrarium (large & small), Glycodonta, Septifer, mytilid (ribbed), Fragum hemicardium. dead taken only; Monilea, Josepha, Cerithium (?Bittium), Bulla 2 spp, vermetid, Umboniid (?Ethminolia), Crepidula, Trochus, Chloridiloma zeus, Liotia, naticid, turrid, Cantharus, Nassarius, Tellins  (2-3 spp), Plicatula, Chlamys, Solecurtid, mactrid, Tapes, Fragrum unedo, Paphia (2 spp?), Barbatia, Pilarine, Ostrea folium, Corbula, Tellinella +++, Cultellus, Pinna long dead, carditid, Bassina.
Returned to ship to early luncg - went N towards end of Dirk Hartog I. Clay, Louisette & I set off from the ship - anchored SE of C. Levillain - towards Levillain Shoals - using 9hp outboard - It failed so we returned & changed to 25hp ( still on 1 cylinder) & went off to Shoals to dredge - sea calm!
SB#24: Levillain Shoals, E of C. Levillain, Dirk Hartog I, WA; 24°30.6'S 113°1.5'E; 3-6m; 2 dredgings each of 5 minutes from 1445 hours onwards; sand with ripple makrs; v sparse Zostera (very sparse biota). Molluscs: live taken; Sunetta small elongate pale, Cantharidus sp., Phasianella sp., Zafra sp.
We then moved in towards Cape Levillain & became aware that there was a very strong current flowing out of bay - strong chop at meeting of currents off Cape. Decided discretion was required - turned S to dredge off beach. 
SB#25: E of C. Levillain, Dirk Hartog I, WA; channel just off beach & parallel to it - dredging for 5 minutes from 1535 hours; sand & weed (Posidonia Amphibolus Zonaria & v fine jointed coralline); 3m; box dredge. Breynia fragments. Molluscs: live taken; Gomphonia undulosa +++, Euplica. dead taken; Cypraea sp., Cerithiid - short squat brown, mytilid (ribbed).
Clay then put Louisette & me ashore on beach. 
"Cape Levillain, Dirk Hartog I, WA - beach drift, E side of Cape 15.45 hrs". Steep-to beach, coarse sand; constant small surf & strong near-shore current to north, many large yellow ghost crabs. Dead taken Molluscs: Melo & egg case, Trochus, Tonna chinensis, T. variegata, Ovula ovum, Stomatella phymotis, Scutellastra, Clanculus (brown), Haliotis squamata, Cypraea caputserpentis, C. helvola, Cypraea sp., Bulla campulla ?, B. botanica ?, Angaria tyria, Tectus pyramis, Dicathais, Cerithium (2 spp?), Oliva, Manilea, Crepidula, cymatiid, Siphonaria, Diodora, Phasianella, Donax, Spondylus 2 spp, Pinnam, Septifer, mytilids 3 spp ( 1 ribbed 2 smooth), Sunetta (small pale & long), Tapes (fawn & brown), Barbatia fusca, B. helblingii, Arca, Glycymeris, Carditid, Gomphina, mactrid, Ventricolaria, Trapezium bicarinatum, Pinctada albina, Ostrea folium, Epicodakia bella, Chlamys cf squamosa, Chlamys sp., Chama, Fragum unedo, F. hemicardium, Aerosterigma, turtle nests.
Meanwhile Clay had taken another dredge haul.
SB#26: E of Cape Levillain, Dirk Hartog I, WA; sand & low reef with weed (Zonaria, Sargassum, Amphibolus & v fine jointed coralline); 3-4m; 5 minute dredging from 1550 hrs. Regular urchin (small). Molluscs: live taken; Phasianella, Gomphina, Glycymeris juveniles?, Glycodonta, Euplica, Sunetta sp. small pale long, Sunetta sp larger darker rounder. dead taken; mytilid, lucinid (heavy large rounded), Divaricella, mactrid, Fragum hemicardium, umboriid ?Ethminolia.
We returned to ship - against strong current - ship moved S to NE of Pt Louisa - try net- 3 hauls.
SB#27: NE of Louisa Point, Dirk Hartog I, Shark Bay WA; 25°44 to 25°45.4'S; 113°8.6'E; 3 trawls with try net from 1900 hrs onwards, 11 fms. Assorted fish, prawns, crabs, "Balmain bugs", Squilla. Molluscs: live taken; Annachlamys +++++, Chlamys +, Amusium +, Cuttlefish, 2 spp Dumpling squid - dark spots - colourless patches. dead taken; Paphia, Tapes, Fragum hemicardium, cardiid, Trisidos semitorta, + Temnopleurus alexandri, Stichopus sp., Ophiothrix ? ciliaris, 2 large starfish. 
Anchored off Louisa Bay for night.
8-V-81
Louisette, Clay & I left the ship (which had come in fairly close to shore) - in Zodiac with 9hp motor. Went in to N side of point at S end of Louisa Bay, - sea fairly rough - & very turbid.
SB#28: Louisa Bay, E side of Dirk Hartog I, WA - point at S end; intertidal rocks & sand - 2m. plus dead material off & on beach. Undercut limestone cliff with boulders & roks at base; high turbidity. Sargassum, Zonaria, Dictyota, fine jointed corallines & algal turf. (V little Valonia, c little Caulerpa peltata) Turbinaria sp, Goniastrea, Protoreaster, soft corals - live Breynia. Molluscs: live taken; Haliotis squamata, H. varia, Diodora sp, Gena sp., Monodonta labio, Acmea sp. from oysters, Euchelus, Siphonaria sp., Tectus pyramis, Chitons, Cryptochiton, Lithophaga sp., Ostrea sp., Isognomon sp., Pinna sp. many in sheltered sand, Chama sp., Saccostrea cuccullata, S. sf cf commercialis (few, higher), Pinctada albina, Epicodakia bella (?live), Dosinia, mytilids small ribbed. dead only; Melo sp., Cantharus, Phasianella, Euplica, Monilea, Chloridiloma zeus, Nassarius rufula?, Cypraea caputserpentis, Nerita atramentosa, Cerithium squat black & white spots, Strombus campbelli, ?Austrocohlea rudis, Trochus sp., Cantharidus sp. (ordinary), Cerithium fasciatum, Turbo, Turbo (turquoise), Dentalium smooth large, carditid, Tapes ( 2 spp?), Tellina (Tellinella?), Gomphina undulosa, Fragum unedo, Mactra, tellins, Decatopecten, Antigona sp., Antigona lamellaris, Vulsella, Paphia, Bassina, Periglypta ? (white teeth), Latemula, Crassatella, Dosinia 2 spp., Cultellus, Spondylus ( red lip), Chlamys, Barbatia fusca, Fragum hemicardium, Annachlamys leopardus, Pecten, Anodontia, Gafrarium, Mytilid large smooth.
We then went into shallow water off beach to dredge from Zodiac.
SB#29: Louisa Bay, E side of Dark Hartog I, WA; 1-2.5m; sand-weed beds (Amphibolus); box dredge; 2 dredgings between 1116 hrs & 1138 hours. Molluscs: live taken; Euplica, Monilea, Philine, Cerithium (?Bittium), ? Zafra sp. (small), Gafrarium, Fragum unedo juveniles, Glycodonta, Sunetta (large), Tellina (Pinguitellina) robusta, Callista. Dead taken only; Parcanassa, Bulla, ? Scaphander, Tellina (Tellinella), Bassina, Tapes, Dosinia sp large, Dosinia sp small, Chama sp., Cultellus, Divaricella, Mactra spp (2?), tellins.
We then went further offshore to what looked like a sandy but deeper area & dredged but got hung up on coral clumps on the first 2 dredgings.
SB#30: Louisa Bay, E side of Dirk Harktog I, WA; 3-4m; sand & weed (Amphibolus, Zonaria, Sargassum) & coral; 3 dredgings between 1158 hrs & 1220 hours; base dredge. Acropora, Turbinaria, Favites, soft coral. Protoreaster (live), Breynia (dead). Molluscs: live taken; Phasianella, Euplica, Cantharidus sp. short conical, Cantharidus sp. high conical green, Turbo (turquoise) juvenile, mytilid small green, Ostrea sp., Lithophaga in dead coral. dead taken; Nassarius.
We returned to ship, had lunch & then set off eastwards to a point S of try net station of last night. 
SB#31: E of Louisa Bay. E side of Dirk Hartog I, WA; 25°46.6'S; 113°8.5'E; rectangular dredge & net; 9.75 fathom; 1328 hrs for 10 minutes; coarse sand, shell grit & dead shells. 
Luidia, Pentacta, Metrodiva, Cydoseris (dead). Molluscs: live taken; Ostrea sp. juvenile, Annachlamys, Corbula, Cultellus, Tellina (Pinguitellina) robusta, mytilid - fragile- , Antigona lamellaris, Circe scripta, Gafrarium, Paphia, Chama, Strombus campbelli, Nassarius, Dentalium javanium, Dentalium (small). dead only; Pinna, tellins small (3 or 4 spp), Amusium, Tapes ( 2 spp?), Dosinia (2 spp?), Chlamyus asperrimus, C. squamata, C. finnebris ? (small red), ?Zenatia (elongate mictrid), Fulvia (2 spp), Pecten, Anadara ?velicata, Anadara sp., Gastrochaenid on Decatopecten, Decatopecten, solecurtid, Fragrum hemicardium, psammobiids, Tellins (diassate yellow), Tellins (deep [sketch of shell?]), mytilids (brown smooth light), ? Fragum (Afrocardium)- spined, ?thraciid (nacreous), Pitas, Glycodonta, ?Chione, cardiid (small), Plicatula, Chama, Trisidos semitorta Crepidula, Polinices conias, ? Catharidus (large, heavy), ? Cantharus (purple mouth), Lassariid (ribbed, decussate), turrid, Morulea.
SB#33: NW endo of Denham Channel, Shark Bay, WA; 25°54.3'S; 113°08.4'E; 5-6 fathom; coarse sand & shell grit; rectangular dredge & net; (near to site of Hamburg Expedition #17).
Archaster, Astropecten, Breynia, Cycloseris (dead). Molluscs live taken: Corbula, Sunetta ++++ large, Dosinia brown & white - damaged, Paphia, 30 live Glycymeris sp dark brown, 62 live Glycymeris sp light brown spotted, Costacallista, Tellina (pink striped), Dentalium smooth, Strombus campbelli. dead taken: machids small, Decatopecten, Astrea sp, psammobiid, Chlamys asperrinus, mytilids (small fragile smooth), Chama juvenile, Dosinia small, Pecten, Glycodonta sp1 juvenile, ?Glycodonta sp2 adults, Plicatula, tellins (? spp), Cardiid juvenile, Astrea sp., ?Pinna fragment, Annachlamys v. juvenile, limid v small - elongate- tumid, fragum hemicardium (red spots), Turbo sp (turquoise), Scutus (black), Cantharidus (large, heavy), Euplica, ? Bulla juvenile? gragment, ? Stomatellid. 
We then came into Denham where Clay collected parts for 25hp outboard which had been flown up to Fisheries Inspector. We anchored offshore for night - Clay, John McCarthy & Ron went ashore for evening. John Patterson fixed up outboard, Louisette & I wrote up notes etc. (I sent letter to Jane etc). Clay delivered Kodachrome boxes to Mrs Bassett - Arthur wasn't here & she didn't know anything about fossils to be collected for George Kendrick.
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We set off from Denham & went westwards (with a bit of slow travelling over hard to see channel) to the approximate site of Hamburg Expedition #2.
SB#34: 4 miles W of Lagoon Point, Shark Bay, WA; 25°55.5'S; 113°26.4'E; to 25°54.7'S to 25°55.6'S; 4.5-5.25 fathoms; 0940 to 0958 hrs; 2x5 minute hauls with rectangular dredge; sand with dense weed banks of Amphibolus, Zonaria & small red epiphytes. Archaster, Protoreaster, Astropecten, Breynia, Peronella, & 3 spp holothurians, & Turbinaria small colonies. 
Molluscs, live taken: Corbula, Astrea, Sunetta, Chama, Spondylus, Arca, Decatopecten juv., Plicatula, Pinguitellina, Pinna fragments, Monilea, Cantharidus short, Cantharidus long, Liotia, Euplica, Drupe, Angaria (adult&juv.), Phasianella, pyramidellid, umboniid (Monilea?), ?Phasianotrochus (minute pink & green), ?Cyclopharid. Dead taken: Chlamys asperrimus, Annachlamys, Fragum hemicardium, F. unedo? or erugatum? juv., Ventricolaria, Costacallista, Glycodonta, Tellin elongate - pink rays, tellin - minute translucent & estrate - concave post/D margin, Circe, Antigora, Divaricella, ?leptonid - transparent -flat, ?leptonid - decussate, lucinid - fairly strong conc. lirae or lamellae, ?Epicodakia (minute), Venerid - small zig zag, Mytilid (?Musculus nanus)(minute), carditid (minute), ?Acrosterigma dupucheuse, mactrid- (minute), Phasianellid-minute-pink spot, Diala-fine lines, Bulla botanica, Crepidula, rissoids - minute (?>1spp), shelled opisthobranchs (Scaphander?), naticid, nassariid (short, squat), Diala minute, Hypotrochus, turrid.
(to Book 2)
[List of species and numbers follow]
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Keleya ?rotunda 15 20, Carcareus pusillus n sp 3, Solecardia minima n sp. 3, Chama reflexa 1 3 7 15 19 21, C. nivalis 3 7 8, Cardium flavum 7, C. hemicardium 3, Antigona chemnitzii 21, Callista impar 4 5, Clausinella berryi 4, Chione squamosa 4, Venerupa iris 5, Tellidora sp 14, Mesodesma glabratum 5, Gastrochaema tunidula 14 15,  
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Arca navicula 3 9, A. decussata 25, A (Trisides) tortuosa 19, Lithophaga reticulata 14 25 26 28, Musculus cumingianus 14, M. nanulus n sp 7 10 14 15 16 21 23, Brachidontes subramosis 4 5, B. bilocularis 25,Pteria carchariarum 3 5 20 29, P. vulgaris 22 23, Vulsella vulsella 14 15, Crenatula nigrina 21, Malleus malleus 14 23, Pinna bicolar 5 21, Lina ?pusilla 3, Pecten asperrimus 9 21, P. leopardus 2 21, P. dringi 10, Cardita crassicostata 1 16, Tridacna elongata 25, Diplodonta rosacea n sp 15, Phacoides (Parvilacina) periformis n sp 3, 
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Pyrene (?Astyris) clausiformis 25, Columbella versicola 3 5 7 8 14 22 23 25 28, Pseudomycla? moleculina 1, Pisanea ignea SB, Cantharus fumosus 3 7 28, Semifusus (Megalatractus) proboscidifeus 28, Nassa albina n sp 25, N minutila n sp 3 7, Mitra ampharella 25, Aulica nivosa 5 7, Cymbium flamneum 5, Persicula dentiformis n sp 7, Turris albina SB, Brochytama alina 3 7, Conus pontificalis 25, Ophysia gigantea 5 29, Aplysia gigantea 5 29, A. annulifera 25, Siphonaria sp. 5
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Amalthea conica 25, Crepidula aculeata 3 7 13 14 16 20 21 23, Strombus floridus 23 25, S. australis SB, Natica marochiensis 25, N. sagittata 25, N zonulata n sp 25, Lamellaria sp 28, Pustularia helvola SB, Dolium variegata 25, Cronia avellana 23 25 28, Drupa aspera SB, D. margariticola 3 7, D. ricinus SB, Thais aegrata 25, Coralliobia madreporaram SB, Pyrene menkeana ? 9, P. fuscolineata n sp 8 15 19, P. sagittifera n sp 23, P. abyssicola 7 10 25, P (Zafra) hedleyi n sp 3 13 19 20 21, P(Z) vereoi n sp 3 7 13 23 28 30
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Cerithiopsis stylifera n sp 24, C. cingulifera n sp 23, C. abbreviata n.sp 15, Triphora castaneofusca nsp 3, T. subulata n sp 1 3 9 12 14 16 20, T. alboapicala n sp 16 20, T elata n sp 25, T. adela n sp. 25, T albina n sp 1, Scala tumidula n sp 3, Strombiformis australiensis n sp 3 7, Malanella modesta nsp 7, M. helena n sp 23, M. elsa nsp 16, Chrysallida australis n sp 3 12 20, C. ovalis nsp 21, Odostomia perspicua 8, Stylopyramis cerilliocles 3 23, Turbonilla planilata 19
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Vitrinella cingulifera? 3, Planaxis sulcatus 5, Finella pupoides 3, Scaliola caledonica 1 12, Diala pusilla sp 1 3, D michaelseni n sp 14, D. varia 3 14 16, D. lirulata n sp 3 12 20, Alaba vibex 7 19 21 28, Plesiotrochus crinitus n sp. 3 12, Cerithium australiense 13, C. liratum n sp 19, Bittum minutylum n sp 3, C. bilubiciculatum SB, C. asperum 5, C. morus 5, Melaxia fuscoapicta n sp. 10, Cerithiopsis albula nsp 1 3, C perlinga nsp 7, C brunnea nsp 19, 
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Haliotis roei SB, Scutus unguis 10 16 28, Diodora plicifera nsp 1, D. rugosa nsp 3 15, D. ovalis nsp 1 14, D. nigropunctata nsp 5 7, Patella neglecta 25, Acmea sp SB, Euchelus atratus 1 3 10 14 16 19 21 25 28, Tallorbis roseolus 25, Calliostoma modestum n sp 19 28, Acmea calamus SB, Cantharidus flindersi 5, C. freyeinela 7 22 25 28, C. decoratus 4, C. tristis n sp 4, Chrysostoma obtus=zeus 9, Trochus abeliscus 3 7 25, Monilea lentiginosa 29
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Stomatia baconi 23, S. sculpturata 3 9, Gona nubulosa 25 26 28, Angaria delphinis 3 7 8 25, Teinostoma lucidum 14, Liotia peronii 3 19 22, Bothropoma decoratum 12, Turbo petholatus 30, T pulcher 25, T menkei 3 21, A lentorium 25, Phasianella angosi 7, Nerita melanotragus 23 25, Smaragdia roseopicta n sp 7, Tectarius rugosus 25, Cingula intermedia n sp 9, Cingula nitidula 19, Alvania hedleyi n sp 23, Rissoina triticea 25, R. crebrecostata sp 25

We then went slightly SW & did another trawl in more sandy area (again at approx. Hamburg #8).
SB#36: abt 6 miles S of Denham, Shark Bay WA; 26°0.4'S 113°30.6'E; 2-3 fathom; 1 haul of 5 minutes at right angles to edge of bank; rectangular dredge; sand & shell grit & weed beds (Posidonia, Amphibolus, Halimeda & Caulerpa (2 spp (1) hard c long 3 cornered fronds; each edge serrated (2) soft stipe with globular pinnules arraged in 2 opposite rows along stipe) Protoreaster, holothurians & sponges. Molluscs, live taken: Cerithium cumingi, Crepidula, ?Hypotrochus, Drupe, Cantharidus short, Cantharidus long, Euplica, Chama, Pinna (gragments of live shell taken), Bellucina!, Chiton from Posidonia. dead taken: Triphora (brown), Diala ? lutea, ? turrid, nassariid - small squat, Pyrene? (or is it Mitrella) minute, Phasianella, Liotia, ?Mitrella - brown fine close lines, Melo, umboniid (?Ethminolia), naticid, Cerithium (?Bittium), ?Clanculus (B&W), Mitrella sp (minute - chevron 1 pattern), v small cerithiid, rissoid, Cyclophorid, tellin - minute concave postero-dorsal border, venerid - minute, mytilid - minute - Musculus, ?Montacutid, lucinid - smallish circular, limid - small very fragile, Divaricella, mytilid - smooth fragment of, Venerid - small zigzag, tellin - minute straight edge, Aerosterigma reeveanum, mytilid - smooth not hairy, Ventricolaria, Antigona, Pinuitellina, mytilid - smooth hairy, ?Monitilora - very deep buccinid, Carditid.
SB#37: SW of Denham, Shark Bay, WA; 25°58.1'S, 113°30'E to 25°57.7'S, 113°30'E; 1.5-2 fathoms; 2 hauls with rectangular dredge; sand with a little Amphibolus & floating Posidonia, jointed coralline epiphytes, rock with yellow sponge, dead coral, little Halophila. Molluscs, live taken: Cerithium fasciatum, Mitrella or Pyrene - very slender, Euplica live, Montaculid. dead taken: Tectus obeliscus, ?cerithiid - small slender B&W, Crepidula, Angaria, Cerithium (?Bittium), Pinctada albina, mytilid - large smooth hairy, Spondylus - red lips, Ventricolaria, Antigona, Astrea, Carditid - elongate, Carditid - short, lunid - large, hiatellid, Chama, Dosinia - large, Anodontia, Perna (fragment), Astrea - long dead, Pinna fragment, Chlamys sp. - juvenile, Venerid - small zig zag.
Clay, Louisette & I then set off from Flinders - which was moored off Denham jetty - in the Zodiac for the approximate positions of the Hamburg Expedition stations 3 & 4 (north of Denham on weed & sand flats). We swam as well as dredged at HE#4 but only dredged at different depths at HE#3 off Lagoon Point - high tide - much weed thrown up onto beach.
SB#38:
2.5 miles NW of Denham, Shark Bay, WA; 25°54'S; 113°30.2'E; 2 metres; diving & box dredge 3 hauls between 1525 hours & 1550 hours; sand patches in weed bed (Posidonia, Amphibolus, Zostera & Halophila (coarse species all over sand, v fine species around edges of sand patch)) jointed coralline epiphytes, Penecillus & ?Anadyomene? (green calcoreans alga - flat thallus with swollen holdfast in sand). Breynia dead - peculiarly elongate. Molluscs, live taken: Cerithium fasciatum +++, Rhinoclavis vertagus ++, Euplica, ? nassariid (squat, short), Aulicina nivosa, Cantharidus (short), Pinna, Pinctada albina, Chama - lying on sand - probably detached from weed wtc, Carditid - large, reddish & white. dead taken: Tellinastaurella +++, Divaricella (2 spp?), tellin -pink stripes, tellin - deep yellowish, ? Bassina, Fragum hemicardium, Pinguitellina, Tellina (Tellinella), Circe scripta, limid large, Fragum unedo, Diodora, Bulla botanica, Tetuc ? pyramis juvenile, Mitrella sp, Pupa sp. (? juv. of solidula), Pupa solidula. turrid, Cerithium large B&W, naticid, cerithiid - squat brown & black , (?Bittium) dark brown-white slender, Cantharus, Phasianella, Cerithium (?Bithium)+
SB#39:
On N side of Lagoon Point, N of Denham, Shark Bay WA; 25°55.4'S; 113°31'E; depth?1 metre; 2 hauls of 5 minutes with box dredge; asnd with sparse Zostara; Molluscs, live taken: Dentalium - smooth, nassariids +, Cerithium fasciatum, Eulimid, Mitrella - juv., ?Callista, Placamen (Bassina), fragum hemicardium, ? Thraciid - nacreous, Gafrarium large, Gomphina, Sepiolid - large spots. Dead taken: Gagrarium - elongate, mytilid - ribbed, Pinguitellina, Fragum unedo juv., Circe, Divaricella, mytilid - smooth, Tellina staurella, Punctada albina, ?Katelysia hiantina, Dosinia, tellins - 2 spp., Eulimnid, naticid, Pupa solidula, Cerithium (? Bittium), Cantharidus - short, vermetid, Cuttlebones.
Arrived back at the ship cold & late for dinner. Clay, John Patterson, George Allen & Ron Daniels went into town. Louisette & I continued on working till fairly late.
10-V-81
Took photo of Denham at sunrise. Went south to Eagle Bluff.
SB#40: 1.5 miles W of Eagle Bluff, Shark Bay, WA.; 26°6.75'S; 113°33.5'E; 4-4.5 fathom; 0933; rectangular dredge; weed beds (Amphibolus & fine coralline epiphytes). Molluscs, live taken: Phasianella red & white animal, Crepedula, Euplica, Cantharidus short, Cantharidus long, tripharids - same spp. alive, Liotia, Phasianotrochus, drupe ?Cyclostematid (knobbed risge around umbilicus), ?Gibbula deep brown - v small v long eye & mantle tentacles, cerithium spp, Angoria adult, naticid sp.1 - dense brown pattern, naticid sp 2 - cream, nassariids - short squat, eulimnid - pink near spine, chitons on dead Amphibolus leaves, 2 spp Mitrella, mytilids - ?Musculus nanus - v small, Chama, Pinguitellina (v long exhalant siphon & jumping foot). dead taken: tripharids, ?Clanculus - dark, Diala, turrid, ?Diala - broad, transparent c. fine conc. red lines & white spots (but see later!), Opisthobranchs - short spined shell, ?Hypotrochus, ?Neritina - v. small white c. deep pink paired chevrons, Mitrella, Ventricolaria, Irus cf vertumnalium, solecurtiid, ? Bellucina, ? Wallucina - deep oblique (? divoricate) rad. ribs, Antigona, Divaricella, ?leptonid (lat teeth, 1 ?cardinal). Worms in gastropod shells to Loisette. Louisette & Clay had hone ashore to do next station while I stayed aboard finishing sorting of mountain of weed from this catch.
SB#41: Off small islets near Eagle Bluff, Shark Bay, WA; 1.5m; sand with weed beds (Amphibolus, Posidonia, fine Zostera, coarse Halophila) 1120-1123hrs dredge, plus diving & intertidal collecting.
Weed washings: live molluscs - Bolloid with ant. & post. areas of incised lines, Dialia sp. 1 - brown lines & white spots, Diala sp. 2 brown with white spots, Mitrella (or Zaphora) zig-zag brown lines - white below sutures or mottled brown & white - faint axial ribs, Phasianotrochus - brown & white, Euplica, nassariids - short squat. "Dialid" (see previous station) - wide transparent c red lines & white spots but has tentacles on epipodium & small but definite tenetacles at front corners of foot. Islet N of Eagle Bluff - diving, live molluscs: Saccostrea cucullata, Barbatia fusca, mytilid - ribbed no hairs, chiton - large - hairy mantle, Chama, barnacles -small - ribbed, Ostrea folium, Epitoniid. Jay's rock, S side of Eagle Bluff & on Point: live molluscs: Planaxis - adult & juv., Monodonta, mytilids - small ribbed, littorinids - 1sp? (all animals similar but some shells (large) are fawn & granular & others (small) are dark grey with orange tubercles), acmeids - bluish-green mantle with yellowish edge - v. fine tentacles on edge (some animals lighter & tentacles more obvious), Siphonarians with grey splashes & white (or yellow) spots on pneumostome head & sides of foot, live Gomphina. Dredging, all dead: tellin - spines on post rib area, Fragum efrugatum, Fragum hemicardium, Anodontia with sunken limule, Euplica, Pinctada albina, Divaricella 2 spp? are finer?, Cerithiium fasciatum, Phasianella 2 spp?, mytelid - ribbed, ?Zonatia - fragment only, mactrid, Chama, large mytilid (? not ribbed ?), Parcanassa, Polinices[?], Cantharidus - short, Mitrid. Rock Washings: Triphora - black with discrete white nodules - live!, Bemetids - live, Chama - live. We then went S to Goulet Bluff.
SB#42: 4.2 miles SW of Goulet Bluff, Shark Bay, WA; 26°14.4'S 133°36.8'E; shell/grit sand & sea grass (?Amphibolus with flat, opposite leaves). Molluscs, live taken: Spondylus - large flat processes, Chama - spined not with flat processes, Corbula, Cultellus, Mactrid, ?lucinid - smooth inflated, Euchelus, Opisthobranch - shelled white elongate - rel. large, ? Thraciid - nacreous, Dentalium javanium. dead taken: Costacallista, Circe scripta, carditid, Fragum hermicardium, Antigona lamellaris, Fulvia, Pecten, Laternula (fragment), carditid (small), Pitar - small white smooth, mytilid - v small - ribbed, Divaricella, Dosinia sl. decussate anteriorly, Solecurtus, lucinid - small globose c conc. lirae or lamellae, tellin - fine - elongate - ant end > post end - pink rays, Bellucina, nactrid - small -white -purplish posteriorly - 2 faint rays, Eulimnid, Melo, Polinices, drupe, umboniid - ?Elliminolia, naticid (cream).
SB#43: 7 miles SE of Goulet Bluff, Shark Bay, WA; 26°18.8'S; 113°44.75'E; 6 fathoms; weed beds (Amphibolus, & epiphytic jointed coralline algae); rectangular dredge; 5 minutes. Molluscs, live taken: disjointed Scalids, Chitons -small -brown & white striped mouths, Clanculus B&W, Euplica, Cantharidus - short, ?Neritina - transparent c white & pink spots, Bittium - v. small - brown, ?rissoacean - minute - axially ribbed, ?Zafra - brown c white below suture, Diala - white spots, nassariid - short squat, Mitrella - dark brown c white spots below suture, Opisthobranch - exert spire, ?Liotiid -minute -flat ceneanp[?] apere[?] - ciliated eye tentacles - foot bifurcated post. Dead taken: Cantharus, Pupa solidula, ? Phasianotrochus - brown & cream, ? cancellariid - fragment, ? Diala - minute - pagoda shaped, ? Cyclophorid - brown & pink & white - nodular umbilical border - hairy - opercular pit, rissoacean - inflated whorls, acmeid - minute - transparent with white spots, ? Diala - but broad glassy c red lines (see earlier #), Hypotrochus, Mitrella - brown with white spots, Dialid - sl nodular ribs, ?liptonid - like Pinguitellina - but broken lamellae sl decussate sunken leg, Opisthobranch - sunken spire - [?], rissoacean -white, ax ribs, Opisthobranch - parted ends -involute, Divaricella, Fragum erugatum, lucinid - deep- oblique- radial divaricate sculpture, Gafrarium, Corbulid - minute - inflated but no ribs, tellin- minute concave post/D, ?Diala (see previous#) broad glossy c white spots & pink lines, ?Cyclophorid -flat -strong ribs wgite - no nods on umbil., Gibbula - brown & white - umbilicate conical, triphorids, Diala - brown lines white spots, Zofra brown c white (zig zags on mottled), Zofra stray brown lines below suture - then white dots then light brown, pyramidellid slender -brown band, pyramidellid - slender -white, Mitrella - dense brown lines - some join - like Cliff Head.
We then took a haul in deeper water.
SB#44: 6.5 miles SE of Goulet Bluff, Shark Bay, WA: 26°19.2'S, 113°43.75'E; 7 fathoms; muddy sand & shell grit with sea grass (flat wire[?] weed c opposite leaves). Molluscs, live taken: none. dead taken: Fulvia, Divaricella, Gafrarium -rounded, Gafrarium elongate, fragum erugatum, carditid, Pinguitellina, Cultellus, Tellin - minute rostrate post/D margin concave, ?Dosinia, lucinid - minute -oblique cone - lamaellae with rad ribs ant. & post., Anodontia - sunken limule, mactrid - posterior rib, Ventricolaria, carditid - small, Marginelliid squat, Pyramidellid - minute, bulloid - v minute - ?rad ribs, triphorid - v minute, Cerithium (?Bittium), Cantharidus (squat), Bittium, Corbula -minute -v tumid no ribs, Euplica, ?Diala - minute -inflated whorls, lucinid - oblique deep rad ribs, mytilid small ribbed, ?Gibbula brown & white - imbilicate conical, ?turrid. Opisthobranch - inverted spire - not involute, Mitrella - brown axial zigzag lines, Dialid - swollen whorls, Fragum erugatum, ?Dialid- broad - glossy -white & pink pattern, Zafra - brown zigzag, Fulvia, Opisthobranch - inverted spire flat across post end.
SB#45: 3/4 mile E of Smith Island, Freycinet Reach Estuary, Shark Bay, WA; 26°35.5'S, 113°44'E; 2-4 fathoms; 1637 hours; 2 hauls of 3 minutes each, rectangular dredge; Muddy sand & weed beds (Posidonia, Penecillus, Zostra). dead taken: Cerithium (? Bittium), Fragum erugatum, Diala sl beaded ribs, Electroma. * see sheet for extra species. Molluscs - live taken: Gafrarium - l, mytilid small ?Musculus ribbed, mytilid - red/brown - smooth, Crepidula. dead taken: fulvia, Fragum erugatum, F hemicardium, Pinguitellina, ?"lepta" faint broken lamellae - faintly decussate- look at teeth, lethin[?] [sketch] strong post rib - concentric lamellae, Electroma - most[?] green, tellin - minute - concave post/D, Bellucina, Opisthobranch - slender minute [sketch], lucinid - deep oblique faint divaricate rad ribs. #45 (cont): Cantharidus short, Cerithum (?Bittium), Parcanassa, Mitrella - brown with fine white axial flames, turrid - small cream c strong axial ribs, Diala - {pagoda} - keeled, Limpet - minute - transparent with white rays, Diala - inflated whorls, Bittum, ?Cerithiopsid - brown.
SB#46: (=Hamburg Exped. #12), 2.25 miles N of Giraud Point, Freycinet Reach, Shark Bay; 26°26.2'S; 113°37.2'E; rectangular dredge; grey mud with weed beds (wire grass with flat opposite leaves, some Halophila & v little Posidonia; v little shell grit). Molluscs - live taken: Fragum hemicardium, Gafrarium. dead taken: Fulvia, Cerithium (?Bittium), Laternula fragment, Cantharidus short, Diala - keeled (pagoda), ? rissoid - faint axial ribbing - early whorls with 1 brown band/whorl & 2 on body whorl, Bellucina, tellin - small - concave D/post, pyramidellid - slender, ? Cuspidariid - flat nacreous conc. ribbing, ?Diala - beaded ribs, rissoid - minute - axial ribs, Fragum erugatum, Diala - slightly keeled - axial flames, Diala - small brown spots on white ribs, bucinid - oblique - deep, Conotalopia, opisthobranch - spire inverted - not involute, mytilid - minute - ribbed brownish, "dialid" - broad - glossy with white spots & pink lines, opisthobranch - pointed both ends, Dentalium - smooth, Diala - swollen whorls, mytilid - brown - strong posterior teeth - ribbed, opisthobranch - flat top, ?pyramidellid - short & squat - 3 plaits[?].
SB#47: 3 miles ESE of Cape Heirisson, Shark Bay, WA; 26°2.2'S; 113°24.7'E; 10 fathoms; rectangular dredge, 3 minutes; Shell debris & lithothamnion nodules - presumably in sand. Halimeda, flat calcareous green (Anodyomene?) little wire weed (flat opposite leaves, Halophila). pycnogonid. Molluscs - live taken: Cardiids - oval - thin - brown markings, Annachlamys - 4 ribs with red & white pattern, Trisidos semitorta, Tudicula, Hintella - large in dead coral & small ones in crevises, chitons - 2 or 3 spp, Arca navicularis, Chama 2 spp - foliose & prickly, Plicatula, Chlamys asperrimus, Astrea sp., mytilids - black - burrowing in dead coral, Carbula, Euchelus, Pinctada albina lamellose, Angaria, Perna small, Chlamys or Decatopecten - red - juvenile, Dentalium javanum - 1 juv. alive - all green except 1 yellow-green. Dead taken: Epitonium - v widely spaced large lamellae, nassariid - small squat, Melo, Cantharus, Nassariid - large, triphorids 2 spp, opisthobranch - spire exert, Diodora - scaled, Turbo, Fissurellid - long notch, Tellina (?Quadrans), mytilid - small brownish, lucinid - small oblique deep, limid[?] - elongate - [?], Spondylus - brown lip, Spondylus - red lip, Decatopecten, Paphia, Glycodonta, Costacallista, Semele - lamellate, Pinna - jaw - fragment, ?Irus ceyloncis - small, Sunetta - large, Periglypta, Anadara, Chlamys dringii ?, Tapes hiantina, Perna, "lepta"? - white - globose, solecurtid, Dosinia, carditid, Chlamys squamata, Gafrarium, psammobiid - pinkish, ?Zonatia, Tapes litterata, Bellucina large, Corbula sp. - elongate.
SB#48: 2.6 miles N of Cape Heirisson, Shark Bay, WA - in Denham Channel; 25°58.5'S; 113°21.5'E; 9 fathoms diving station; shell grit & sand, Halimeda, soft corals sponges & gorgonians. Molluscs - live taken: Chama, Spondylus - large, mytilid - black - boring into dead coral, Euplica - red siphon, Malleus - white - byssate, Pteria sp.  - (?benhardti), Nudibranchs - brown & cream spots - cream border & brown & white gills, Astrea sp. Dead taken: Tapes - v. fine zigzag lines - thin shell, Perna, live? Gastrochaemids, Glycodonta, Periglypta, Semele - lamellose. 
SB#49: 4.5 miles NNW of Cape Heirisson, Shark Bay, WA - in Denham Channel; 25°56.8'S; 113°20'E; 9 fathoms; diving station; shell grit & sand; soft corals, sponges, gorgonian fans. Molluscs - live taken: Perna in sponge, Pteria ?saltata ?bernhardti on gorgonian, Cronia, Cleidothaeris on bed rock covered by sand, ?Fissurellid - long slit - concellate, nudibranchs - 2 spp., Chlamys squamata juv. Dead taken: Chama - prickly, oyster, Chlamys dringii, Carditid - yellow - v. lamellose, Tapes - fine zigzag lines, psammobiid, limid - elongate - tumid, Dosinia, Diodora lamellose, Hiatellid, arcid, Cardiid - fine oval, "lepton" globose, mytilid - smooth central, ?Pitas section, Semele - lamellose, Glycodonta, tellin -pink rays, limid - elongate - tumid.
SB#50: 9.75 miles E of Louisa Bay, Dirk Hartog I, Shark Bay, WA; 25°46'S; 113°16'E; 9.5 fm. try net; prawns! Molluscs - live taken: Philine, Paphia, Annachlamys, Chlamys asperrimus, Euplica - red siphon, Mitrella, Cuttlefish 2 spp. Dead taken: Ostrea sp., Turbo haynesi - turquoise, Atrina, ?Zonatia, solecurtid/
12-V-81
SB#51  

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.

Thursday 6 March
#DI1[...]Decided to investigate more sheltered area off N end of Dorre I. [Sketch of area showing location of #DI1] Anchored on coral bombiw in sndy area between reefs. The sandy area had a few rocky outcrops with & without coral. No sea grasses in sand. The reef to the west was algal covered with plenty of variety of corals - hard & soft. Mostly Montipora, plenty Pocillopora of a variety of Turbinaria & Acropora. Some Cyphastrea, Favia, Favites, Cyphastrea (coarse brain coral) (No Fungia, no Labophylla, no Echinaster no Galaxia etc). Variety of corals increased nearer to tip of reef & way from sand. Sea grasses (Halophylla & Halodule?) in sand in sheltered areas. Variety of algae - mostly reds. Lot of Asparagopsis & some Caulerpa (scalpelliformis & tabulata? - globular not tabulate) - some iridescent red0gold dichotomous or tabulate form in sheltered overhang position. Some black & some brown holothurians, no starfish, variety of soft corals, almost no bivalves - one dead venerid - some Ovula ovium eating soft corals. 1 dead juvenile bailer, 1 dead Amaria. Saw 2 large turtles. Saw few large blue spotted rays. Clay found small Pinctada (?maxima) on W side. Went over to reef on E side of Point. Corals much as before. Larger fish - sea snake - yellowish c grey brown bands. Coralliophilids (white) in Acropora colony. Clay found small Hyotissa hyotis )Hyotissa hyotis - no commensals - Lithophagas Peanut[?] & bristle worm on shell, otherwise same as on other (upper) side. Few Tridacna macima. [short Description of Hyotissa sample found by Clay given]
#BI1 (approx 1km N of C. Couture on E side of island) [...] Then went up E side of Bernier I for about 1 mile - entered small bay with narrow sandy beach & sandy cliffs behind it. - no oysters on boulders on beach - too sandy? Oysters (S cuccullata only) on rocky reefs offshore. These rocky reefs were surrounded by coral reefs & then by sand, coral reefs approx. 20-30% being coral - rest was dead coral covered with about 40% lithothamnion & 60% leafy algae. Some very large coral colonies - Montipora, faviids. Variety of coral present - many small colonies but many large ones - few large tabular Acropora but quite a few dead colonies. Many Tridacna maxima of all sizes. Cypraea helvola, C. clandestina & C. hirundo(?) under dead tabular Acropora. Also 2 spp of Columbellids - Pyrene spp, 2 spp of Clanculus, small Pinctada sp (?P. maxima), larger P. ?albina. Small lamellariid found on dead Spondylus shell. Small eroded Chama sp found live Haliotis varia under dead coral, live Trochus ?maculatus small under dead coral. Plenty of Agnesia, Septifer, some Turbo ?cidaris under stones. No sea grasses except for detached wiry stem ? antarttcus [sketch given]. Some Halimeda, some jointed coralline, much Codium (massive), little globular Caulerpa. much Laurencia. Variety of soft corals - branched & massive.
Friday 7 March
[morning precollecting activities detailed]
#DI2 0.5->1km S C. Boulanger W coast of Dorre I.; [..] Collected some small oysters (S. cuccullata) in rock pool at about HWL. These were unusual in most were comspletely devoid of ribs until about 2cm deep - only small fine prickles were present on some. Those on open coast just below were normal  - adults heavily eroded but with ribbing developing v. early. Those  in the pool were also more pinkish than on the rocks below. No large dive oysters were present though plenty of lower valves - strongly ribbed - were attached. Collected some shells from beach drift. Corditid, Arcid (Barbatia fusca), Trapeziid, Venerid (Periglypta ? resticulata), a cellanid, another Venerid (red-brown spotted) & some shells - apparently long dead - of Marmarostoma pulcher. Opercula apparently of this species were found high up - some appear to be fossils - Clay found one in red conglomerate bearing fossil Bothriembryon. Looked hard for fossils - found plenty of Bothriembryon ridei in good condition - also larger shells - are these the same species? Photos of cliffs on W side. Fossiliferous layer about 4-6' thick - with occasional fissures filled in (estimate still <<1% but patching). Found a few fossil camaenids - Clay took some photographs of one  in situ but after it had been chipped away from rock - found some more in situ & other weathered out at the base of cliffs. Found a small Bothriembryon is this a different species again or is it the juvenile of the elongate larger form. [Moving to net location saw dead mammal and 2 large sea eagles]
DI3; In afternoon I expored Disaster Cove. Clay went photographing general underwater habitats -within limits imposed by strong wave action & turbidity. Mike collected coral specimens, I looke at general sublittoral scene from survey point of view. Most of Cove is sany floored with few rocky otcrops, mostly covered with algae but with some soft & hard corals. Corals are more abundant & colonies are larger on sides of ba both to N & S of Entrance [Sketch of Cove given] I collected algae. Few molluscs. Dicathais, Tectus, Oyster under Turbinaria. near entrance to Bay - sublittoral to 10', 10-50% rock in sand, of benthos on rock, 10-20% hard corals, 10% soft corals, including Palythoa, branching forms (heavy & light) also Xenia on small patches. However -> 80% of coral cover nearer entrance <<5% purple-black sponge. Of the hard corals, 30% Turbinaria spp, 30% Montipora, 30% Faviids (Favia Favities). also Platygyra?, Symphylia, Pocillopora etc. Of the algae (algae 70%) about 5% crustose corallines og the 95% leafy algae; 50% reds - (50% Asparagopsis, 30% fine reds, 20% Laurencia etc), 30% greens (80% Codium  (massive), vl Halimeda, vl Caulerpa) 20% brown - Dictyota. Molluscs; Tectus pyramis, Tridacna maxima, vf Septifer, one oyster(?) taken under Turbinaria colony. Echinometra only urchin. On sides of boulders on N & NE side of bay & reef forming E side of bay were large expanses of corals (Montipora) & soft coral (Palythoa) & some large colonies of Turbinaria. On N side of bay were some large patches of Caulerpa. In sand among boulders on N side were sea grass (Halophila) but over sandy bottom of bay no grasses or algae grew - sand deep and shifting.
DI3/2 (Oyster Zone Disaster Cove); 
Oyster clumps ytaken from N side of bay (boulders) & broken up to extract animals boring within crevices. Oyster zone on SE & E side of Bay (rocky reef) examined oyster xone about 2' wide - not very thick on SE & E side - thicker outside bay on same reef & on N & NE side - oysters wqere sculptured though eroded as adults. Large semo-spined chiton, small greenish granular chiton, few ellobiid, small brown & yellowish starfish (noth on rock & on oysters), limpets large (Patellid?), small 1 sp on ?1 sp off oysters, ribbed mussels, Septifer, Peanut worms, Lithophagids, Leptonids (many), Fossarids (few), mid-sized grey fine-ribbed barnacle only where water rough, Sihponarians on rocks (small), Stomatellids dark deep, Isognomonids, Pinnothaerid crab inside oyster.
DI3/1? - Intertidal above oysters; Melaraphe above splash zone of blue green algae. Nodilittorina (granosa?) in blue green algal zone. Large semipspined chiton - few small greensih granular chiton, especially low down & in depressions. vv few ellobiids (brown c yellowish stripe - small - on rock) vv few Nerita atrata, small Siphonarians.
Saturday 8-ii-80
BI2 [...] Red Cliff Point, Bernier I. [...]
I dived with Mike - after anchoring in lee of Point. Shifting sand with large patches of Amphibolus which appear to become continous well offshore outside of Bay - though these banks might be Posidonia or mixture of Amphibolus/Posidonia judging from beach drift which is mostly Posidonia. These sea grass beds in bay were 1-2m deep (some to 3m & sand between generally deeper). As epiphyte was a great deal of a fragile looking jointed coralline which was attached to Amphibolus stem in large long clumps. There was little else epiphytic - a very occasional sea-squirt - brown & shrivelled looking - few shells among beds alive. Aulicina hivosa, cerithiids, Phasionella, trochids & few trochids & columbellids on sea grass stems & leaves. [sketch map of location]. Rocky reef continued N from N corner of Red Cliff Point at about 2+ to 3+m (mid tide). 90-95% algal covered rock & dead coral (all leafy), <5% Hard coral, <5% soft corals , << sponges (black [sketch] or orange [sketch] & v few khaki [sketch). Of hard corals; Turbinaria 2 spp?, Faviids approx. 4 or 5 spp., Pavona?, & Solitary corals. Of Algae; 90% red (cf green Laurencia-type is included), 10% brown, <1% green - Halimeda, Codium -massive.
Molluscs; Pinctada albina, Tectus, Tridacma maxima (4-10'), under stones columbellids 2 spp, Clanculus, Echinometra only urchin seen. 
Reef 3+-4+m Of plants; 10% sea grasses (Halophila spp?), 90% algae. Of algae 80% Brown - Zonaria & branched Zonaria type, Dictyota. <10% green; Halimeda, Codium - massive (little), Codium - branched (2 sizes), Caulerpa 3 spp little. <10% red; Asparagopsis, Laurencia, vvl red gelatinous sausages, vvl red coralline bunches. 
Clay found molluscs, Nudibranch (darid?), abalone (H. squamata), dead venerid Periglypta.
BI3. Walked across island to W coast - large blow out millons of Bothriembryon & some camaenid shells (B. ridei, Camaenid) (photo), found fossiliferous conglomerate (coarser & narrower) on W cliffs collect some dry shells from drift. Only seemd to be 1 sp of Camaenid on plateau, collected series of fossils & extant dead shells.
Sunday 9-iii-80
[...]#BI4/1; Beach 0.5km N of C. Couture. Bernier I. above oyster zone; On what looks something like beachrock but which is probably a layer of the sedimentary rock forming the island. In the splash zone on the this rock the blue-green algal cover was dense but arranged in small patches. Melaraphe (small individuals) were sparse above this blue-green algal zone; but within the algal zone were siphonarians (mainly in shallow depressions, fissures or near small rides in the rock. In crevises were littorinids of 2 species ?Nodilittorina pyramidalis or N. granosa (all fairly small individuals). Also in the crevises were small blackish-brown ribbed mussels - not very common. 
#BI4/2 Oyster zone on beach about 0.5km B of C. Couture, Bernier I.; Took a photo looking S towards Cape & #BI6. The rock in this zone was a lot more uneven than in the zone above. The oysters were on the tops of the pinnacles & ridges - & on their sides too - & the gutters between were smooth. On the oysters - all S. cuccullata are red anemones (in the crevises & hollows of the oyster clumps & a speckled green anemone on rock). On the rock were palellids - particularly low down in the zone & acmeids on the oysters, particularly low down Siphonarians were extremely abundant all over the rock and the oysters. Om the oyters and on the rock were many of the med-large grey barnacle and on some oysters were what appeared to be the juveniles of a smaller more strangely ribbed barnacle - though no large specimens were seen. Among the oysters were the leptonids (white c red) and very fre Dicathais & very few & small Nerita atrata were seen among the oysters. On Drupa? (black-purple) was taken which was in the process of boring into an oyster at the anterior lip about 1/2 way from D to V.
#BI5/#2; (Between BI4 & Cape) About 0.5km N of C. Couture, Bernier I. - intertidal rocks; (photo looking S towards Middle Rocks Doore I & C. Couture). Oysters only numerous (not really abundant) on the (NW) lee sides of rocks & in the rock pools. Melaraphe (large) quite high  but few - apparently high splash zone. Nodilittorina abundant & large. A variety of weeds. - Ulva, ?Euteromorpha (but stiff) & filamentous reds on outer exposed faces of rocks. Blue green algal cover quite thick. Oysters larger than at BI4 but sparser. Nerita atrata few but large. Chitons (large granular). Patellids/acmeids few. Siphonarians abundant - mostly larger than at BI4. On way back, in Melaraphe zone, found large black & white nerite out crawling - tide coming on to full. I then walked out to end of Cape Couture - the plateau forms a ridgeback at this point and below is a platform of the red conglomerate fossiliferous rock. This platform is well above HWL & splash zone. On it are a couple of Sea eagle nests & a colony of about 500 (pied?) cormorants - which smell. Rocks contains Bothryiembryon ridei but no camaenids seen  - though not searched for. 
#BI6 On West side of C. Couture, Bernier I. Low to midtidal rock platforms, Intertidal; This lies about 506 feet below level of "platform". Though it receives constant wash from waves which break on SW corner of island it is not really exposed. I examined (at this time) only small area od SE corner of this platform (rest examined next day). Sublittoraly (just) were many colonies of coral - mainly Acropora & many Tridacna maxima. Oyster Zone & above were essentially same as BI5/1&2 but there were fewer littorinds -Melaraphe being most common pprobably because of virtual lackof splash zone. On the platform were many dead T. maxima, and also found were dead Turbo agyrostoma Spondylus sp, Tectus pyramis, large limpet (none found alive then or later) & a whales earbone (I think). The oyster zone lies at the base of the "cliff" & also on pinnacle & ridges over rocky intertidal platform which this lies at low-mid intertidal level.
[sketch map fo C. Couture area showing locations of BI4-BI7] 
Peculiar type of gelatinous "sponge" on sides of some rock pools - mid brown. 
#BI7 S end of C. Couture, Bernier I. WA - high intertidal rock platform; Though this recieves waves from both SE & SW it height above LWL nears that of the main force of the waves is broken. Oysters were present on the low cliff & fewer over the reef flat - not many considering that the level of the platform was at the oyster zone level. But probably wave action too great & algal growth too lush. Alagal cover mostly reds, with some green ____ ____ present only as stunted form in rock pools & then only sparsely; vv little Caulerpa in rock pools, some Sargassum on E side of platform where waves were not breaking but runoff is fairly constant. On "cliff" many littorinds with tlarge Melaraphe coming well down into bl-green algal zone & intermixing with N. granosa type (N. pyramidalis type not very obvious). Littorinids were mostly large - only a few small-sized individuals. Grey fine-ribbed barnacle above & through oyster zone - grown abundantly on oysters on rock platform & on edges of terraces over which water cascades - these edges were usually raised a little. No Balanus seen though one dead shell found in rock pool. No large limpets seen (though plenty of dead shells on rock platform). A great deal of Xenia in rock pools & depresssions particularly in run-off area. Many Echinometra (no other urchins seen) particularly in run-off area in hollows. Lithophagids in coral rock on pool (small-medium) but large aperture seen in reef. Lithophagid, Tectus-Patellids, acmeids. trochid (?Calliostoma) dead in pool. Agneusia, Dicathais, Turbo (which species?), juvenile Tectus in pools. Russoinids[?] columbellinids (Pyrene scrypta) in pools. Vermetids on platform - most large ones dead.
Clay & Mike went to collect intertidaly on the W side of Cape Boullanger, on the N end of Dorre I.
#DI4; Among other species Clay collected a small dark brown achitectonicid which was crawling over rock not on a soft coral. 
In the afternoon we wnt again up to the bay about 1km N of C. Couture on E coast of Bernier I (#BI8); We dived around the reed on th N side of he headland. The sand bottom at 10-15' is apparently quite barren here. I collected some more pearlshell & Clay took some photographs of others. I collected some of he small purplemouthed columbellid under stones. Most of the collection was of coral samples. Found a species of what I think is Moseleya (Spelling?) - with more elongate & smaller polyps than the Abrolhos species. It was in about 10-12' water on outer edge of reef.Saw >20 goats on way home.
Monday
10-iii-80
[...]#DI5 N side of Smith Point, Dorre Island. sublittoral-rock & coral reef -> 5m in sand; This reef forms the NE boundary of a small bay with Snith Point forming the S boundary.
[Small sketch map of DI5 location]
The coral reef lies offshore from a rocky high intertidal & supratidal ridge running N/S parallel to the coast. It is a really lovely reef with large boulders forming deep fissures & caverns, & coral growth lush in most places. Near the coral towards the S end of reef the sand is silty but towards the N end offshore from the reef it is coarser sand. Saw some more of the Moseleya sp. found on Bernier I. but didn't collect. Most of the coral was Turbinaria various species, & large & small colonies of Acropora & Montipora & there was also Favia Favites Echinopora Meandrina, (?)Symphilia. A lot of the Acropora was dead. There were some sponges on the outer edge of the reef - massive blacks & small mushroom shaped khaki jobs [sketch of sponge]. There wasn't much soft coral - mostly Polythoa. Of the molluscs there were some quite sizeable Pinctada margaritifera & some P. albina quite a few Tridacna maxima, Spondylus, Chama, variety of arcids (mostly Barbatia fusca), few small white isgnomonids, few montacutids(?). There were very many Tectus, a small buccinid(?) was found under a stone as well as a fasciolariid, plenty Clanculus (black), some (?)Monilea (red & white trochids) some Turbo (what species?), plenty of columbellids (slender Pyrene scrypta), mitrids (brown & yellow), Haliotis varia & H. squamata (with crabs in mantle cavity of each taken) Trochus(?) maculatus under stones, some large pale brown, white & black Clanculus most dead many crushed, 1 live one taken under rock. Out on the sand there was a variety of dead shells - some tellins (3 or 4 spp) & lucinids & a live Myadora(?) on sand surface. I found a dead shell of Hyotissa hyotis but no sign of living gryphaeids. Found some small oysters under stones - resemble Lamarck's Ostrea haliotoidea perhaps. Clay found some larger oysters (?O. folium) & he also found a juvenile Pinna & some dark Malleus sp. The two colour forms of Chromodoris (westraliensis) -c lines & c 2 blue spots were found in this area - therer seems to be a  third type also - with only one large patch of blue on dorsum & with sign of longitudinal streaks between rhinophores. Also on sand found dead olive 2 spp of live nassariids (1) burrowing in sand leaving trail (2) other in sand under stones, where I also found live Aquaria & dead Tonna. Found largish yellow-orange nudibranch under rock - some as Clay had found previously. The only sea grass was Halophylla in sand in sheltered areas. In the deep undercuts & fissures was a large orange-red much-branched alga & a species with a wide flat blade seeming to be tattered on the edges (very gelatinous). Quite a few brittle stars were seen & some samples were collected. Echinometra was very common & 1 specimen of Tripnuestes (large round c white spine) was seen, though a few dead tests were found.
[...]
#BI9 W side of Cape Couture, Bernier I, intertidal rock platform & sublittoral coral platform; We all snorkelled over rock & coral platform. In the shallower areas to the S (near to #BI6) the rock platform is about about at LWL with pinnacles & ridges projecting upwards & crowned with oysters. In the pools & depressions were plenty of Tricadna maxima & some small coral colonies. Lower rocky areas were generally covered with an algal mat. In the deeper areas to the N are gardens of Acropora species (both tabular & staghorn types). There were also large clumps of soft corals of the type that Ovula ovum eat (Clay found some). He also found 2 large Charonia tritonis at base of this same soft coal colony, and a large red Spanish dancer which had itself (or with others) been laying egg ribbons attached to sides of rock pools over quite a large area. Plenty of Echinometra one Diadema seen. In yet deeper areas there were channels (6-8' deep at mid tde level) with sand on bottom & quite a strong flow of water from the SW where waves were breaking. The most obvious feature of this area were the large massive bombies of brain coral (Pachyseris) with five convolutions & only a faint groove running along the top of septum between coralites. These combies were a lovely grey-blue colour & looked marvelous. In this area there was a large variety of abundant fish - bald chin groupers, large cod & a 5-6' shark as well as parrot fish, hump-headed wrasse, Chaetodons (yellowish), Clown fish (Brown yeloow & white & also black c 2 white-blue spots) & many many more. No large limpets seen - no Haliotis roei though this was really not the right habitat 1 Turbo pulcher taken in crevise in coral. Pinctada margaritifera - few but medium sized. Mike said he saw a v. larg orange nudibranch (abt 1' in length) with pustulose dorsum. I found a swimming Lima with deep red tentacles & very thin flail shell under stone - some oval monlacutids under stone & other bits & pieces but these together with a nudibranch (whitish) which Clay photographed appear to be lost. 
[short notes on trip back to camp]
11-iii-80 Tuesday
[Notes on weather and morning preparation]
#DI6 W side of Cape Boullanger, Dorre Island.
DI6/1, above oyster zone near vertical rock faces exposed to waves. DI6/2, oyster zone; Melaraphe reasonably abundant - on more exposed situations few if any oysters except in crevises & rock pools. Barnacles (1 sp - grey fine ribbed) above through & below oysters (& in more esposed situations replacing oysters) (PHOTO). Littorinids (N, pyramidalis & granularis types both present). Few patellids & v few siphonarians in exposed situations. On more sheltered but still exposed rocks - few oysters - large L. granularis, barnacles & more patellids & siphonarians (large ones above oyster zone, smaller ones within it) (PHOTO). At more sheltered situations (but still with abundant wash from waves) plenty of juvenile oysters not aggregated around adults but settled on rock face ususually in depressions, not always (PHOTOS). On sheltered face of high esposed boulder N pyramidalis-type high up with Melaraphe (PHOTO).
DI6/3, Exposed rock platform at lower oyster zone level; Few oysters scattered over rock platform. In pools found caralliophyllids (dumpy[?], purple mouthed) on Montipora colonies. Found first Thais (atropurpurea?) - spiked, purplish & white - same as at Kendrew I. on oysters - but this specimen was not on oysters, just clinging to rock platorm. Large limpets present but not abundant (unlike reef flat to S on W coast over from Disaster Cove). Plenty of siphonarians on oysters etc & on rock. Cypraea caputaserpentis in depressions. Quite a few chamids - some in depressions, some not - Mostly old & hoary. Plenty of Septifer but not in mats - on rock & on coral; few Pinctada albina mostly small &/or stunted. Turbo pulcher in depressions.
DI6/4, More sheltered part of reef flat which receives wash from waves but not subject to full force of breaking waves; Mancinella mancinella (orange) behind boulder. * Dicathais boring oysters - boring in centre of vt. valve (actually anterior to add. muscle) - not on lip as with Drupa & Thais. Though Dicathais found all over reef flat in pools & at the base of cascades where oysters were very abundant & where water flow was constant but not rough. Plenty of siphonarians & patellids on rock & also suprisingly quite a number of littorinids - mostly N. granosa type. There were chamids attached to rock, Septifer quite abundant, stunted Pinctada albina in small pools & a live Trapezium on sand in pool. On a particular prt of this sheltered section of reef which was higher than the rest there were a very great number of littorinids - mostly N. pyramidalis type - including a very large number of juveniles in shallow pools - not seen anywhere else. Around behind boulders was a most peculiar habitat - the water from the waves had passed under & between large boulders towards the seaward edge of the reef & ran out and down over a series of cascades extremely well covered with oysters. Clay got a much deformed pinnid (?Atrina) here among the oysters. In the rock pools behind (ie to the east of) the intertidal eock platform were Diadema Polythoa Pocillopora Acropora & Montipora. Mike bashed up clumps of oysters to extract the interstitial fauna keeping that from the sheltered cascades area separate from that of the more exposed E edge of the rock platform where the fauna was more abundant. Intertitial exposed; peanut worms, ribbed mytelids, Patellids, Nerita atrata, Fossarus, Leptons, Lithophagids, Acmeids, Barnacles, Littorinids. Interstitial sheltered; less abundant, live and dead lithophagids, few ribbed mytelids, peanut worms, siphonarians, fossarids (? no leptonids)
[sketch map of C Boulanger area with locations of DI6 localities]
Collected beach drift from sand bank - found would have come from sheltered area between intertidal rock platform & sandblock which was sandy bottom at depth of 2-3' at LWL with coral & oyster clumps. Stomatellids (Gena & Stomatia mariae?), Opisthobranchs (>2spp) & Hydatina(?) guamensis, Volute (Aulicina nirosa), Buccinnid(?), 2 spp. Hipponicid, Cypraea helvola, C. caputaserpentis, C. miliaris, Calliostoma, Trochus(?) maculatus, Diodora spp.(2), Euchelus, Clanculus atratus, 2 cerithiids.
(DI6/3 addendum) black & white drope, oyster (other than & as well as S. cuccullata), large limpet, Septifer, barnacles, chitons (large granular & small greenish granular), Pinctada albina (stunted), patellids, spihonarians, Tridacna maxima, Cypraea caputaserpentis, Dicathais, vermetid, Cone (red/large), coralliophyllid on Montipora, Thais (b&w c purplish aperture), Columbellids, Agneusia. Algae; triqueter Sargassum whitish coralline (but softish) clumps of green & red filamentous clumps.
12-iii-80
Beach Collecting at Cape Boullanger [...]
[short discussion on return to Carnarvon delayed by vessel not yet departing]
So again we went beach collecting on the N & E sides of Cape Boullanger. Found one dead Haliotis roei on the beach on the E side of the Cape but otherwise little diffference inb dead shell composition of the drift. again got a great diversity of small shells from the drift on the beach near to the NW side of the Cape (sheltered). Took some photographs of the camp at Disaster Cove. [Discussion on return to Carnavon by ship]
13-iii-80
C1. Pt Quobba (Clay & Mike offloaded gear from the vessel.) We departed Carnarvon about 8am or so for Quobba. Day overcast & strong wind from S turning to SW. We spent a few hours snorkelling in the coral reef flat area south of the point - coral in sand, shallow, sublittoral. - greater variety of sand dwelling molluscs than at any of our island stations (mitra cones etc). A lot of dead coral & soft corals. Only S. cuccullata. Returned to Carnarvon in evening. 
14-iii-80
(1) Carnarvan mangals (2) New Beach, Wooramel R camp.
Departed at about 8.30am. Went first to Fishermans Harbour - launched dinghy - examined mangal to S side of harbour - dead patches - probably oil - all Avicennia collected few littorinids, potamidids & ellobiids, no oysters. Then went to mangal W of harbour on N side of channel. 2 (?3) species of ellobiids. Oysters (S. commercialis type). Ellobiids seemed zoned - one species overall (zig-zag) but one only in more sheltered area of mangal. Neritid. potamidids.
C3. After lunch in town we departed south & reached New Beach in mid afternoon (vehicle overheating). Thin beach in S of Greenough Point (& S of Bush Bay) on E coast of Bay. There is a smaal tidal drainage creek (perhaps freshens in rainy weather) running through rather sparse mangroves to open with a deep channel onto intertidal sand flats. the wind was fresh from the south - just as well as the flies were impossible. I walked along the beach to N for about 1-2km gather beach drift - many newly dead latemulids (small->med) & dead cardoods & venerids - probably due to constant strong SE-S-SW winds over previous week. No oysters on mangroves (dead or alive) which were healthy enough on beach but had died further out on flat - evidently level of flat had fallen &/or perhaps sediment type had changed. Live bivalves were not really abundant but some cardiids were found. 1 species (check!) in mangal - very sparse.
[Note on evening camp]
15-iii-80
Wooramel R-> Denham. Clay & Mike S to Islet. Arthur Bassett. Flies & more flies even before sun-up - at least they got us on our way early. We reached Denham about 10am. Clay & Mike went S along Peron Peninsula to rocky islet down towards Eagle Bluff. Collected oysters (S. commercialis type) & other rock dwellers there - reported that they & other animals were very sparse. [Discussion of visit to Arthur Basset's house to discuss shells into evening]
16-iii-80
Shark Bay Big Lagoon area
[sketch map showing localities visited]
Left Basset's about 7.00-7.30am & went N along coast to the mouth of Big Lagoon (low water).
BL1. Collected oysters & associated fauna on shore outside N head at entrance to Big Lagoon. 2 species of rock oyster - S. cuccullata & S. commercialis (but check*). The cuccullata were quite peculiar with the posterior lip often rising up above the level of the right valve as a sharp flange. The lower valve ribs are sharper than normal & there was often little evidence of the ribs on right valve - the growth lamellae were strong & often continous with lappets corresponding to ribs. Very few if any jeveniles of this species - some individuals are obviously very old as the rock was "pillared" beneath them. On these rocks - beach rocks & boulders - at abt mid-tide level the species were evenly mixed with perhaps a greater proportion of cuccillata towards the point at N of beach. On the same rocks was the species Saccostrea "commercialis" - hard to tell from the sharp edged S. cuccullata.  They were generally lighter in colour - grey with purple radial (but curved) stripes & were possibly slightly higher up the shore (or  at height where that they were on the sheltered surfaces of the beach rock which were at its upper limit in general). There ere quite a few juveniles & half grown oysters of this species present. Ellobiids under rocks & seagrass drift about HWS - zigzag striped sp. & pale yellowish c spiral brown bands sp (larger than others found - Melampus?). Otherwise cerithiids, siphonarians, acmeids on oysters, leptoniids on oysters & black & white cerithaceans & granular Littorinid.
BL2. We then went across Big Lagoon entrance to the mangal on S head. This lies on NE facing point & around bay behind (ie on S shore of passage into Big Lagoon). Avicennia marina only (of course) vv few oysters - all S. commercialis one on tree branch & others loose on intertidal substrate. 2 spp (or maybe 3) of ellobiids - zig zag all over mangal in salicornia bed or under wet drift of sea grasses. Small brown ellobiid c yellow band  in moister or more shaded places with zig zag job. Polamidids galore, Littorina scabra below water level, in litter on branches etc.
BL3. We then went out W of the entrance to Big Lagoon. There is s deep channel running W from the entrance with steep sides, particularly on the N side of the channel. We dived here thinking there werer rocky reefs forming the steeo channel side - but it turned out to be eroded banks of solid sea-grass sediment - which must be at least 8-10 feet thick here & goodness knows how thick below the level of erosion. We went out further west to the sand & weed flats to the S of this channel. It was about mid tide level -about 3-4' deep - Clay took quite a lot of photos. Ran into a sea snake which came investigating as I fanned the bottom - just about levitated as I found that the inquisitive "fish" I was pushing back with my bare hand was a bit larger & fatter than usual! But it wasn't interested in me after it swam through my arms & legs & went on its way.
[8 pages of notes on previous discussion with Arthur Basset]
[3 blank pages shot notes on return to Perth on 17-iii-80]
[final page sketches of shell morphology] 

Withnell Bay, rocky slope to NW of sandy beach; S. cuccullata, S. "forskahlii", Trochus "lineatus", Monodonta labia, Nerita sp., Spiny chiton, Granular chiton, Turbo, Drupa "morula", large yellowish thaid, S. cuccullata. [Sketch of intertidal oyster zone] [reference to observations being continued in "Book 1"]
12/08/1978
Shark Bay
Tapper[?] I; algae in gypsum.
Friday Island; S. cuccullata, commercialis, Chaelomorpha?, Planascids, Monodonta, Brachydontes, Siphonarians, Granular chitons. 
Useless Inlet, W side of Tidal Creek entrance; S. commercialis
Heirisson Prong - NW of Friday I, about 500m SW of Heirisson Prong Point; S. commercialis, S. cuccullata.
13/08/1978
[Description of landscape crossed on flight from Shark Bay to Jurien Bay]
05/12/1978
[list of species of seagrass and associated localities]
Halophila ovalis
Boat[?] Passage N., Withnell Bay Point, ML16, ML11C, ML9A, ML10C, ML10D->E, ML9A shore
Halophila decipicus
ML9A shore, ML1E, ML5E, ML9A outer reef slope, ML30C (coral reef)
H. stipulacea
ML9A
H. ovata ?
Withnell Bay, Nth Pt
H. spinulosa (bipinnate)
Lady Nora I. weed flats, ML 10/D->E, Withnell Bay N Shore, ML9A shore
? Halodule wrightii
Withnell Bay Nth Shore, ML9A/shore
Glossophora


 

[Fieldbook begins wth a list of stations, some of which reference associated books ex. Station;1;Book;A->E;]
[Summary of Stations/locales and specimens observed/collected at each follows]
02/08/1978
Watch out for changes in distribution abundance & postion wrt [hole] levels of
oyster - S. cucculata, S. "commercialis"; Turbans; Trochids - T. "lineatus", Prothalotia; Chitons - spiny,granulosa; Thaids - Morula, marginalba, Thais mancinella
03/08/1978
Anchored in Withnell Bay just E of N head.
Phaeophyta, leafy Sargassum, flat Sargassum, Caulocystis uvifera (?Cystoscira uvifera), Turbinaria triquetra, Dictyota, Dictyopteris australis
ML1
SW of Withnell Bay 20°35.95'S 116°45.65' E [running] WNW
A. intertidal; (a) Thin zone of S. "commercialis", Wide zone of S. cucculata; (b) upper - Morula marginalla, small->large barnacles, Siphonaria sp., Acmea sp.; (c) lower - Mancinella, large barnacles, Siphonaria, Acmea, Granular chiton. Algal film layer above oyster zone a small amount lith & semilitho in barnacle zone.
B. just below LWL; Eucheuma c. warts, Turbinaria, Gelidium (not Laurencia), Zonaria (small), Cardilid, Hyotissa 2 pp, Malleid dark red, Thais aculeata.
C. slope; Pinctada albina, Hyotissa 2, Cardiid in coral, Malleus dark red, Acicularia - few on rocks, stunted Sargassum - vv little, Semi-lithothamnian &lithothamnian, Zonaria - small & v few, v small stunted [reds] ?Gelidium, Jania - main component of encrusting mat, calcareous green - columnellar - cross striae - small & few.
D. Bottom of slope; Dictyopteris - small [amnt.] in clumps on stones, Dictyota, Caulerpa & Hyotissa 2, Padina, Sargassum - fine leafy, small amnt. Jania, Lithothamnion & encrusting semi-coralline red-(softish) om Pinna deltodes c Aeneid & ?Siphonarium ?Gadinia.
E. channel; silty sand covered with surface dwelling algae - v small amount of red Laurencia in sand, ?Acetabularia, [Halophila], Dictyot, Caulerpa.
ML5
SW of Withnell Bay 20°35.6'S 116°45.95'E  running W (seaward of ML1)
A. intertidal on boulder beach; no S. commercialis (tho' these were present on adjacent points), S. cuccullata, D. marginalla, Siphonarians, Acmea, small->large barnacles, Ectocarpus, no chitons seen, tube worms & lithothamnions
B. subtidal rocks; v few coral colonies, but many Tridacna maxima on tops of rocks, many Malleus sp. (dark red) in crevices, v few mancinella, v. fine algal [turf] on rock surfaces.
C. slope app. 12'; Pinna sp. - check! (probably P. deltodes), Jania, Zonaria, bombies, small oyster & Cardita, Hipponix on Pinna, Arca navicularis, O. tuberculata in Porites, Pinctada albina, Malleus sp dark red, Spondylus, Septifer, Chama, Arca navicularis seen not coll., Mancinella, Hyotissa 2, small flat streaked b&w Spondylus, 1 large H. hyotis seen in open, Tridacna maxima.
D. at base of slope; Hyotissa 2, Placuna, Phyllidia, Litho & semilitho, no algae.
E. Channel; Plenty of Placuna, no algae only Halophilla, small attached bivalves (few), small living barnacles.
ML3
SW of Withnell Bay 20°35.95'S 116°45.4'E running NNW.
A. Intertidal; S. commercialis, S. cuccullata, barnacles, small spale Lithophaga, dead Isognomonid, small crabs, small Brachydontes, small acids.
B. rocks just below LWL; algal turf, Tridacna maxima, Turbinaria, other molluscs, Chama - few, Spondylus, Carditids, Hyotissa sp. (2 p.p)
C. slope; Small Pinna deltodes
D. bottom of slope; Caulerpa, Codium, Dictyota, ?Udotea, ?Laurencia, Padina, "strange little mussel in ?byssal bag"
E. channel; Zonaria, Dictyota, ? fine green filaentous, dead shells, Placuna, Mitrid, Mactrid, Pectinid, Cordinid, live Cronia ?avellona
04/08/1978
ML7
Withnell Bay N side 116°47'30"E 20°34'37"S
Site E. under boat 15-20ft; 2 spp Amphibola, 1 sp Zostera, 1 sp algae -green calcareous, 1 sp green strap[?] tough algae, 2 spp Caulerpa, Siphonales - packed small pinnules other with large few pinnules, another Siphonales ? Caulerpa with <5% fan shaped stipes, green cylindrical calc. alga <1% with transverse striae.
Site D. Below bottom of slope; ?3 spp Caulerpa including C. scalpelliformis & v coarse & coarse sp. (same as in E) & knobby sp. ?same as above, v. little Codium (dead man's fingers). mats of Laurencia - pale mauvish, new algae (as in E)?, ?Caulerpa ?green strap green cylinder - as in E, 2 spp. Amphibola[?] - dark green round leaf, very fine Dictyota, Malleus - dark red, few Hyotissa 2, cf algae 60% Chloroph., 20% Rhodo, 20% Phonoph.{?} 100% Siphonales, >90% Caulerpa,
Site C. Slope; Padina. Dictyota, Sargassum - fine leaft, Codium (dead man's fingers), tufts of brown filamentous (like Ectocarpus) algae, Zonaria, Chama, Spondylus, Pinna deltodes - quite a few, Septifer, Astraea stellare, A. pileola? (wide flange), Hyotissa 2.
Site B. Just below LWL; brown filamentous tufts, barnacles, mancinella, Trochus lineatus, Astraea pileola, Vermelids - large black, Oyster (what type?). !00% Algae, 60% encrusting, 40% non encrusting, 100% Phaeophyceae, 100% laminate.
Site A. Intertidal; S. cucculata, S. commercialis.
ML12
Offrig[?]on Conzinc I.
Site C. aproximate to slope, approx. 2' depth; algae -  95% Ionia, rest of algae 50% Phaeo, 15% greens. 35% browns, <100% Zonaria, <10% Padina, Tridacna maxima, Carditid, Malleus - dark red, Chama, Spondylus, dead Trapezia[?]
ML12
Site ?C2. 15-18'; 100% cover with >60% algae with H & S coral & a few sponges. Algal turf predominated forming 95% to 60% of algae going from 15-18'. Of the rest Phaeophyceae predominated with about 60%, red 35%, greens 5%, of browns Dictyota formed 65%, Zonaria 30% with Padina approx. 5%. Jania, Halimeda. Carditids, Ostrea tuberculata, Hyotissa 2, Chama, Tridacna maxima, Tectus pyramis, Astraea stellare.
ML12/A1; S. cucculata only no commercialis, Acanthochiton, Barbatia (probably fusca), granular chiton, Morula, Siphonaria, Pillarinids, Thais aculeata, O. tuberculata.
ML12/A2. Below oyster zone; Thais aculeata, Mancinella, Tridacna maxima, small green anemones, Lithothamnia.
ML12/B. Sublittoral rocks; algal turf, green columnar algae, Penecillus, dark brown filamentous algae, Turbinaria, Zonaria, Dictyota, Jania, posy-type coralline algae, like Pterocladia, Euchemna, Carditid, Tridacna maxima, dead Turbo & gyrostomus, spondylus - B&W small & large, Chamid.
ML10.
Rocky shore North of Conzinc Bay, very murky - near to low water. 
ML10/A->B. intertidal; S. cuccullata only, Sargassum, Dictyota, small red-brown turbinid perhaps an Astreid (looks very like Microstraea rutilidoma).
ML10/B->C; Phaeophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Zonaria, Dictyota, Padina, like Dictyopteris, Sargassum, Turbinaria, Caulerpa, Acicularia.
ML10/D->E; Amphibolus. Chlorophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Rhodophyceae, Caulerpa - feather large & wide, Caulerpa - very coarse, Caluerpa - fine like feather but 3D, Caulerpa - flat feather fan, Halimeda, Dictyota, ?Hypnaea, branched gorgonian, Pteriid, brittle stars
05/08/1978
Sandy Beach, just inside N head of Withnell Bay; S. commercialis, Ellobiids - Plecotrema cf minuta & Marinula - dark with light band, Brachydontes. Isognomon, small Leptomid, Barbatia, Acmeid, Planescis.
WAM1/I
Kendrew I. Transect 2B, dived 15-12ft; Zonaria, Peyssonnelia, Boodleopsis, Acropora, Bryopsis, Tectus pyramis.
WAM1/O
Transect 2C, 15-25 feet; Laurencia, Peyssonnelia, Boodleopsis, Bryopsis, burrowing Carditids, Tridacna maxima, Chama, Hyotissa 2, Pinctada margaritifera, H. hyotis.
WAM2/O
Transect 1C, outer at edge of spur & grooves & beyond; algae, H & S coral, lineates (compound green), sponges & hydroids, Laurencia, Peyssonnelia, Coraliines, filamentous red algae, Hyotissa sp. 2, H. hyotis, Chamids, Spondylus, blue mouthed drupe, ?Atrina pectinata, burrowing Carditids.
WAM2/I
Transect 1. B, more inshore towards shoreward limits of spur & groove formation; Peyssonnelia, Bryopsis.
WAM1/50
Transect 2A2 - reef flat 50m from notch; Laurencia, Asparagopsis, Hypnaea, Pterocladia, corallines, Caulerpa, Dictyosphaeria, Colpomenia
WAM1/100
100m from notch, Dog Boulder; Caulerpa 2 spp. coarse & fine, Boodleopsis, Padina, Colpomenia, Laurencia, Ulva.
WAM1/150
150m from notch; Mancinella
WAM1/190
190m from notch; Zonaria, Laurencia, Tridacna maxima.
WAM2/100
Transect 1 A2, about 100m from cliff; Boodleopsis, Halimeda, coralline algae, Laurencia, star red algae, turf algae.
WAM2/125
?About 125m from cliff; much the same as 100m. less turf, more Laurencia.
WAM2/50
About 50m from cliff; Ulva, Caulerpa, Codium.
06/08/1978
WAM4
South side of Museum Bay; Nodelittorina, Melaraphe (striate), Littorina scabra, green algae 0feathers, S. cucculata, large barnacles, red weed, Acanthochiton, Siphonaria. granular chiton, Acmeas, burrowing barnacles.
WAM5
Musuem Bay, N side; Siphonarians, Nodilittorina, Melaraphe - striate (small & large), Siphonaria - large & small - laying eggs, Acmea with granular chitons, S. cuccullata, overlapping large barnacles - burrowing barnacles below.
WAM6
Westside of Kendrew I, near sandy beach; Nodilittorina, Melaraphe (striate),?Cladophora, Siphonaria, mussels (Brachydontes?), Acmeids, Acanthochiton, Onchidium (green), S. cuccullata with granular chiton, large barnacles, green & brown filamentous algae.
ML17a
Weed flats E of Lady Nora Island; brown, green and red algae, Caulerpa, Halimeda, coralline algae.
ML17b/i
Algal flats, Miller Rocks 1; fucoids, dictolamous[?] brown, Dictyota, brown netted bubble algae, Colpomenia, red coralline algae, green thallus[?] - like Anadyomene or Cladocephalus, Halimeda, Caulerpa, Tridacna, C of T[Crown of Thorns].
ML17b/ii
Neat to Miller Rocks 2 on sheltered (Lady Nora I.) side, depth 6'+; Laurencia, Liagora, Crown of Thorns, other 2 starfish, no molluscs obvious.
ML30C
Malus Island - E end of S side - Whaler's Bay, offshore coral reef; algae - turf & lithothamnium, coralline algae, Laurencia, dead Acropora, green columnar algae.
ML30B
Malus Island - E end of S side - Whaler's Bay, on way into shore;  H & S coral clumps, Halophila, Chama, burrowing Carditid, Hyotissa 2, Tridacna maxima, Pinetada albina, Spondylus, Arca novicularis, H. Iyotis[?], Morula spinosa.
ML30Aii
Shore - E end of S side E of Whalers Bay, A; Turbinaria, S. cuccullata, Lunella[?], Acanthopleura gemmata, small & large Monodonta, small & large Nerita (chameleon?), Tectus "lineatus", small umbilicate haemodonta (typica?).
ML30Ai
S. "commercialis" zone; Marinula type ellobiid, Morula margariticola, M. marginalba.
ML30D
N side opposite Whaler's Bay, across sand bar; Astropecta eating trochids (Gibbula type), Cerithium cumingii, C. fasciatum, T. maxima, Atrina pectinata, live dentalliid, Cominella sp. (like eburnea)
08/08/1978
N. side of W. end of Boat Passage [sketch map given]
Stn 1
Beach Rock only at high intertidal level - very dense rock; S. cuccullata, large barnacles, Barbatia, small siphonarians, Morula, granula chiton, Acmea (3 spp), 2 spp Ellobiids (Laemodonta & Marinula type), Fissurellid, Isognomon (v small), old & young S. commercialis (particularly in upper part of zone), Petricola sp. - form hourglass shaped false tube with larger valve, very many dead oysters but also a large number of living oysters of all size classes, Algae - green curls in sheltered microhabitats.
#2
Further along beach - about 50m #1, another layer of beach rock below upper intertidal; very few S. cuccullata (about 1:50 or 100) at same beach level as in #1, large barnacles, siphonarians - more numerous and larger than #1, filamentous green algae, Acmea (2 spp), Onchidium - larger than #1, Morula, Planaxis, curly green algae, Chama - old & young, Morula, dead Vermelids, Petricolids (fewer than in #1), Cypraea errones, Planaxis, Acmea, granular chiton, Onchidium, alga - Boodleopsis is more like Microdictyon.
#3
About 100m along from #2; S. cuccullata, S. commercialis, Onchidium, Morula, Petricola, Barbatia, Siphonaria, Vermetids, green weed. [sampling was noted as incomplete do to sun setting]
09/08/1978
ML10
S of W end of Boat Passage (area which we tried on 4-VIII-78) N of Conzinc Bay
ML10A - Intertidal Boulders; S. commercialis, S. cuccullata, siphonarians, large barnacles, Morula, Acmea (saccharina)
ML10B-C - Below A; Algae - Turbinaria, Sargassum, Padina, Dictyota. Pinctada albina, Malleus (not Malleus alba), Septifer bilocularis, Astrea tuberculata
ML10(DE) - really bottom of subtidal area between coast & offshore rocks not really a channel approximating to other D-E sites; Dictyota, Padina, Caulocystis, Halophila, Caulerpa (coarse)
ML10/D1 - Outside offshore rocks - on boulders to 15'; Molluscs - Pinna deltodes, Hyotissa 2, H. Hyotis, Mancinella, Spondylus, Chama. Algae - Lithothamnian, Semi-litho, fine browns & reds, Hypnea?, Laurencia? stunted.
ML11a
Corner Dolphin Island
ML11a/A - High intertidal-low intertidal; S. commercialis, large barnacles, S. cuccullata, granular chiton, small acmeid, Morula, Siphonarians, Acmea (saccharina type) v few, Barbatia, Petricola, small Fissurellid, brown filamentous alga.
ML11a/B1 - Subtidal - boulders with very much silt; 100% cover, 95% algae, 90% brown, 10% green
ML11a/B2 - lower down - 12' approx.; 60% brown , 30% red, 10% green.
ML11a/B; Turbinaria, Codium, Padina, stunted Sargassum, Mancinella, Chama, red Malleus, 3 spp Caulerpa, green columnar [algae], Dictyota (possibly 2 spp), Hypnea, v finely branched red [algae], Dichotonous brown [algae], New green (Siphonales), Zonaria, gelatinous brown [algae], soft coralline [algae], iridescent hardish branching red [algae], Hyotissa 2, Mytilid (not Brachydontes or Septifer or Lithophaga), O. tuberculata.
ML11a/C - 13-15'; 90% sea grass - Halophila, 10% Caulerpa, fine red (soft) [algae], red &green [algae], dead cardiids (Fragum &[?] fragule), Cultellids[?], Tellina[?], 1 live Placuna, 1 live Ancilla.
ML13A
West side of Angel I; S. cuccullata, Thais aculeata, large barnacles, Cellanids, pink acmeids (small), worm tubes (vermetids), small siphonarians, small acmeids, pink litho, burrowing barnacles, Morula, Barbatia, Brown tar [algae?], fine filamentous red [algae]
ML13B
v low intertidal & just subtidal; Lithothamnion, Turbinaria, Tridacna maxima, Mancinella, Thaid (peculiar) - not seen before
ML13/C
slope; algae - encrusting, turf/very fine, red, green, coralline. Purple mouthed drupe, Hipponix, Red Malleus, Carditid burrowing, Septifer, Chama, Astraea stellare[?], Spondylus (thorny), Ostrea tuberculata, fine flat red [?], 3 spp Phyllidia.
ML13/D
Bottom of slope; Acicularia, Peyssonnelia, Zonaria, Arca navicularis, Hyotissa 2, white Malleus (not Malleus alba)
ML13
Channel flat 30'; fine sand, mobile, no algae or anything else.
10/08/1978
ML11b
Boat Passage N side about 1/2 way along passage; brown & red & green algae, Halimeda, Dictyosphaeria, Anadyomene, Caulerpa, Zonaria, Dictyota, Padina, Hypnea?, Coralline [algae], Laurencia, Asparagopsis, sea grasses, soft corallines, Sargassum, Caulocystis, flat green coralline - new species not seen before - right inshore, flat Sargassum, brown network [algae?].
Atrina pectinata, Punctada maxima, Thorny Spondylus, Red Malleus, Black mouthed Vermetid, Melo.
ML11c
Boat Passage S side Coral Bombies SII, further E than previous station; green red & brown algae, stunted Sargassum, Turbinaria, new green (Siphonales?), green filamentous [algae], green columnar [algae], Laurencia, Vermetid - black mouthed, Septifer, red Malleus, O. tuberculata on dead Pacillopara, Pteriid on Acropora living & dead, Carditids - burrowing, Pinctada maxima.
ML9A
Conzinc B, North side
ML9A/A
shore; S. cuccullata, S. commercialis, large barnacles, Siphonarians, no algae obvious, Acmea saccharina, filamentous brown weed, Astrea pileola.
ML9A/B
Algal zone; 99% brown algae, 1% green algae, stunted Sargassum 2 spp?, Dichotonous brown [algae], Padina, Dictoysphaeria, Caulerpa, green columnar [algae], Dictyota, Turbinaria, Tectus pyramis, Trochus lineatus.
ML9A/C-D
 2 spp? of seas grasses - 1 oval 1 elongate small, Caulerpa - coarse, Hypnea, Anadyomene, v fine Zostera, coarse & fine Halimeda, Caulocystis, fan Caulerpa, very fine? red [algae].
ML9A/C"
Reeftop; 40% brown, 30% red, 30% green algae, brown algae - Padina Dictyota stunted Sargassum, sea grasses - thin leaves - thin oval leaves, red algae - corallines (articulated) - 50% spiky - posy - leafy reds - Laurencia. Tridacna maxima, red Malleus. Bag lot, few molluscs recollected.
ML9A/D
Outer reef slope; algae, Atrina pectinata, Tectus pyramis, red Malleus, Arca, Hyotissa 2, Chama, Spondylus, Septifer, Pinna deltodes, Carditid, O. tuberculata.
ML9A/E
 Channel flat; Placuna - live & dead, Malleus sp cf alba
ML9A/C'
Conzinc Bay landward reef slope; sea grasses, Dichotonous brown algae, Fucoids - Caulocystis Sargassum, Padina, Dictyota, green algae - Caulerpa 2spp Anadyomene, sea grasses - Gelidium - Laurencia - green cylinder [algae] - Codium, Pinna deltodes
11/08/1978
ML14
S. Point of No-name Bay; S. commercialis
A; S. cuccullata, large barnacles, Morula, Siphonarian, Acmea "saccharina" type
B, sublittoral [zone]; Mancinella, Chama, O. tuberculata, Carditids (burrowing), purple mouthed thaids, algal turf, H & S coral, Caulerpa ?peltata, lithothamnion nodules, [transect unfinished]
ML15
A; S. commercialis, S. cuccullata, large barnacles, green & brown filamentous algae, siphonarians, Acmea 'saccharina', Morula, Gania[?], purple mouthed thaid
B, to 10'; H & S coral, Ralfsia, filamentous brown algae, stunted Turbinaria plants, Mancinella, Chama, Morula, Septifer, Red Malleus, Carditid - burrowing, Tridacna maxima
C, at 14'; algal turf, Caulerpa, red Malleus, Carditid, Mancinella, Septifer, Spondylus, Pinctada albina, O. tuberculata
D->E, 20' -> 26'; Sargassum, Padina, red sponges, corals, gorgonians, Pteriids on gorgonians.
ML16
near water outlet N of service jetty
A; S. cuccullata, large barnacle, Siphonarian, Acmaea flammea[?], Acmaea saccharina, fissurellids (Notomella?), Morula
B; filamentous brown algae, Padina, Sargassum, brown bubble algae, red leafy algae, coarse Caulerpa, green columnar [algae], Chama.
C. 10'; turf algae, Caulerpa 2 spp, red - iridescent - dichotonous algae, Padina, Sargassum, filamentous brown algae, brown bubble algae, brown net algae, dichotonous brown algae.