Sat. 16-X-76
J. Chambal[?]-Gasper, J. Campell (on contract to MMA) already in Kununurra. Ron, Daryl and I went to Diversion Dam; C.B., B.R.W., Dan K., T.D., B.H. went to Lake Argyll. I collected dead land & FW molluscs from edge of lake. [Left Kununurra by plane] Arrived Mitchell Plateau mid afternoon, met by Mr & Mrs Street, Laurel Keller, Fred Wells, Mike Ellis, Laurie Smith, Dr. Lukocius[?] & Chris & Maurie from AMAX base. All new arrivals + WAM party drove to Warrender - Also Salem[?] & John Kithby[?] camped at Jump-up. Steets & party camped near Base Camp. Set up camp (14°34'05", 125°50'20") on S side of Walsh Point about mid way along from tip of point to mangroves. (Grid Ref 063874 Sheet 4068 Series R611 "Warrender")
Sun. 17-X-76
Barry Wilson & Ron went to Lawley River mangrove to find suitable site for Ron's camp. 
FW [Fred Wells] CB [Clay Bryce] & SSS [Susan Slack-Smith] Port Warrender mangroves. [Sketch map of area. showing location of Stations] [loose page insert listing leftover food]. Stations about 100m apart, dug 0.5mx0.5mx0.5m - 0.125m3. Grey mud on top ± 35cm below which was blue grey anoxic mud, no live molluscs seen in sample area - some live crustaceans taken.
W4 - layer of dead shell at 0.5m depth.
W5 - decaying wood at 40cm & below.
live Telescopium seen besides & on spit of higher mud ( c small mangroves) rimming[?] between W4 & W5.
W1 Big bags 1 2 3
W2 "    "       4 5 6
W3 "    "       7 8 9
W4 "    "       10 11 12
W5 "    "       12 14 15
Then went to inner side of mangroves. Zone 1 (nearest landward edge). Small Bag (No 1) Ceriops tagal 2-6' mangal Small Bag (No 1) - no pneumatophores - no prop root - stem base expanded into buttresses - flowers & fruits - only males[?] seen - yellow green Cerithidia sp. (2-10') glued to stems by short section of outer lip, ie aperture not closed off - 0-2' above ground level larger mangrove (No 2) Rhizopora stylosa with fruit no flowers - prop roots - 10' - does not come to edge of mangal only about 10' from edge, dark green.
Mangal Small Bag No 3 Aricennia marina - pneumatophores - no prop roots - no fruits or flowers - grey green - 8'
Mangal Small Bag No 4 Aricennia marina - [?] same as (3) - more yellow green.
Mangal Small Bag No 5 Rhizophora stylosa - ? same as No 2 " fruit, large 15' dark green, Bracket fungus.
Mangal No 7. Ceriops tagal, fruits (bomb!) & flowers ? same as No 1., yellow green, buttress -> prop roots.
Mangal Small Bag No 10 Brugiera parvifolia, flowers - petals dropped, fruit developing, dark green, no props, no pneumatophores.
Collected dead Camaenids in leaf litter on slope above mangrove flat on W. side of end of mangroves. + 1 Westracystis cemented  on to Camaenid shell.
left bags of mud on mud flat to collect later.
BRW & R Johnstone arrived back from Lawley River mangroves. J. Chambal Gasper & J Campbell & Lucy left for Surveyors Pool (with Andrew Chapman) & Laurie Smith stayed with us for night.
Monday 18/10/76
[Diary notes; Sorted mud samples. W5 - Small Bag 20. W4 - Small Bag 17. W2 - Small Bag 8 (not quite finished). Maurie brought back some Chamea sp. specimens - I ate one - v. strong oyster flavour.]
Tuesday 19-X-76
Sorted mud from Stn W3 (W3 Small Bag 11) moved into zone 1 of mangroves: W6 opposite W3.
W6 Small Bag 24: Ceriops tagal Mangrove species A: (Max size ca 9ft (31 m. hi[?])) 123 specimens (no pneum. (buttress roots)) counted in the 5m square.
Avicennia marina Small Bag 23: mangrove species B: 11 specimens (pneumat. (no buttress) (Max size ca 13 ft)) counted in the 5 m. square.
Small Bag 18: living snails from site. Cerithidea sp. from stems of trees, usually hanging by a mucus seal from the central part of the outer lip. Juvs usually in crevices of roots and stem base. Littorina scabra on leaves. Nerita lineata - 1 only.
Small Bag 6: Mangrove sp. C: Rhizophora stylosa 2 specimens counted in the 5m square. (no pneum.; no buttress; with prop roots). Lichen on them. Max size about 11 ft.
Small Bag 9 - dead molluscs, live crab, live sipunculids. hole 1/2x1/2m x 30cm.
W7 approx. opposite W4.
Small Bag 22: Ceriops Tagal Mangrove Sp. (= ? bag 24) 32 specimens counted in 5m square. Buttress roots; no props or pneumatophores. (NB. small ellorbiids from hollow trunk.) In this square there is a meandering gutter about 6-10" wide + 2-3" deep.
Telescopium in the gutter plus dead sells of Cerithidea occupied by hermit crabs - 1 with a spider.
Holes with roofed, nearly horizontal entrance tunnels, about 2" diam.
Molluscs in Small Bag 19. Molluscs from mangrove of same species (just outside square) in small bag 22 with mangrove specimen.
Found a mangrove stump- live tree - in which the base of the stem + the buttress roots was riddled with a Teredinid. Sample collected + put into bag 22 - it was a tree just outside the square. Chopped around inside the square and found that nearly all the larger trees (i.e. more 4" stem base diam.) contained teredinids. [Diary notes on return to camp].
W7 (cont)
05.mx0.5mx0.3m 
Red species of Uca, small crab
Small Bag 0 & 25
lots of sipunculids, dead molluscs,
crab outside sample hole[?] ? female
Bag 16
(?Ostrea sp.) oysters on dead log outside W7 area + Neritina?
Found live ellobiids (approx. opposite (W of) W3 & W2) at upper edge of mangroves which grow adjacent to hill & supra mangrove flat. In this area around upper reaches of Port Warrender Bay the elevation seems to be slightly lower than on general supra mangrove flat and consequently wetter mangroves extend round this area ( supra mangrove flat is somewhat a misnomer - though  not when elevation is considered). Ellobiids were near upper limit of these mangroves under litter (flood litter?) of sticks and leaves - often buried in soil (mud with larger grain size & more humus content) than mangrove flat mud on supra-mangal flat on mangrove zones proper) - 2 spp. E. aurisjudae ? Cassidula angulifera.
Wed 20-X-76
W8 opposite W2 in Zone 1 of Mangal.
A. Ceriops Tagal Mangrove sp. in small bag 12, 89 specimens in 25 sq m, maximum height about 7'. No pneumatophores? buttress stems.
B. Avicennia ? Mangrove sp. in small bag 13, 1 specimen about 11', no buttress or prop roots but pneumatophores. mud wetter than at W7. Molluscs in Small bag 14 including mytilid found between buttress roots of mangroves.
No sipunculids, few polychaetes. dead gastropods, no teredinids found.
W9
Approx. E of W5 in Zone 1 of mangal. 25 sq. m area over narrow drainage channel (2' wide 6-8" deep)
A  Mangrove sp. in small bag 00, 2 specimens, max height 10', buttress roots (no juveniles, lichen on branches). Ceriops tagal.
B  Mangrove sp. in small bag 15, 1 specimen about 16' high - no buttress or prop roots but pneumatophores present. (growing in drainage channels). Avicennia marina.
C  Mangrove sp. in small bag 21, 6 specimens about[?] 2 large & [?] branched from prop roots (no buttress ? no pneumatophores), max height 15' largest growing near drainage channel. Rhizophora stylosa. photo No 1 on Ektachrome of Fred digging. Molluscs in small bag 000 - photo of CB & FW in Rhyzophora. Went back landward to Zone 2.
W10
Molluscs in bag 101.
(1) Mangrove species in bag 100, 109 specimens - max height 3', no buttresses - no prop roots, ? pneumatophores. Aegialites annulata.
(2) Mangrove species in bag 102, 65 specimens, Ceriops tagal, buttress roots, Max height 9'.
(3) Mangrove species in bag 103, Avicennia marina, 9 specimens, max height 18', no buttresses or prop roots, probably pneumatophores.
(4) Mangrove species in bag 104, 4 specimens, max height 10', Rhizophora stylosa, prop roots.
W11 in from W4
Bag 8/2 Mangrove species Ceriops tagal, 100 specimens, max height 7', buttressed.
Bag 19/2 Mangrove species Aegialites annulata, 24 specimens, max height 18 metres, branched low, new species.
Bag 9/2 Mangrove species Avicennia marina, 13 specimens, max height 14', pneumatophores.
Animals[?] in Bag 106.
21-X-76
Went to Surveyors Pool in morning collected dead Xanthomelon shells, dead Setobaudinia beside creek (eaten by mammals).
W12 in from W3.
Animals - bag 107.
A.  Mangrove species Ceriops tagal, 59 specimens, bag 105 - buttressed, max height 9 feet.
B.  Mangrove, 162 specimens, Aegialites annulata, maximum height 2 feet, bag 106, (branched form)
C.  Mangrove species Avicennia marina, bag 108, 47 specimens (1 large tree, 15 feet high; 3 plants 2 1/2', & rest seedlings of about 10" in height) pneumatophores ?
D.  Mangrove species Rhizophora stylosa, bag 109, 10 specimens, prop roots, max height 4 feet.
W13 in from W2.
Animals in bag 110.
A  Mangrove sp. Ceriops tagal, bag 111, 216 specimens, max height 8 feet, buttress.
B  Mangrove sp. Aegialites annulata, bag 112, 17 specimens, max height 2 1/2 feet, branched.
C  Mangrove sp. Avicennia marina, bag 113, 9 specimens (4 trees), max height 20 feet, pneumatophores.
Some mud left unsorted - sorted next day
22-X-76
[Collecting in mangroves just west of camp in oyster zone, Fred and Clay went to Point to start rocky intertidal intersect]. All oysters seem to be Saccostrea commercialis [descriptions of oyster habit and morphology given]. At this time - about 6.30-7.00AM the oysters were being bored by two predatory muricids (specimens of predators & oysters with bore-holes taken) these oysters were in upper intertidal near HWL. [Further descriptions of oysters and predator ecology]. Within the oyster clumps were mytilids (2 spp) Isognomon (round species), a very few arcids, ?Perma[?] sp., nerities, a littorinid (Barbicium type). chitons ? 2 spp., polychaete worm, crab. Under rocks below boulders & in contact with mud were small live ellobiids ( ? Marinula type) & deal shell of a larger ellobiid. On rocks & in dead oyster shell were a few specimens of Enigmonia rosea. Small opisthobranch (? Pleurobranch) on surface of oyster clumps.
W14 in from W2.
1 specimen of Rhizophora stylosa, max height 50'. Onchidium, Nerites, Littorina scabra, no molluscs in mud, only 1 worm. bag. Littorinids up high not sampled.
W15 in from W14.
Molluscs & mangrove sample in bag 11/2. Littorina scabra, hermit crabs in dead Terebralia shells. 1 mangrove 20' thin pointed leaves smooth bark many thin pneumatophores - nerites under dehiscent bark, smooth bark Avicennia marina (large leaf), 2 mangroves 25' rounded thick leaves, ? pneumatophores & perhaps thick pneumatophores, large star[?] fruit - flaking bark. Sonneratia alba. Littorinids up high not sampled. Nerites under bark of Sonneratia, Enigmonia [under bark of Sonneratia].
W16 in from W15.
Beyond seaward edge of mangal - beyond mangrove trees, mud sloppy[?] - sink to hips (photo) - few pneumatophores extend out from Avicennia marina. Bag 115, no standard sampling nerites in it by mistake - belong to W15. This zone was devoid of trees but had some mangrove roots [?] pneumatophores (Avicennia ?) extending a short distance into it. This zone was abandoned as unworkable but previous zone of W15 was divided into two - the landward section where W15 was located + a zone right on the edge of the mangal where ellobiids & red opisthobranchs were common & tree diversity lower.
W17 back in from W17.
On very edge of mangal. Bag 116, 1 specimen Avicennia marina, 3', fine[?] pneumatophores. 1 specimen mangrove 18' large stubby pneumatophores, Sonneratia alba, soil sample excavated only to about 10 cm. Many neritas, Bembicium + littorina + mytilids (ribbed) under dehiscent bark - many littorinids up high in tree not sampled. [Summary of difficulty of work conditions given].
23-X-76
[Fred and Clay went to point to do rocky shore transect. SSS went to Bay to north-western corner to try and find Ostrea folium, couldn't find any].
Took Barry W. to show him area with many Telescopium - took photos of these & of red opisthobranchs. Collected dead shells on beach - collected live Murex (Naquetia?) permaestus on oysters & also on dead log. [ Descriptions of Murex specimen and of oysters (sp. not specified) in mangroves, 2 spp. of Onchidium seen and photographed - large on by BRW, small ones (grey and green) by SSS. Small beetles & spider taken from oyster clumps - plenty of red fly[?] seen].
W18; Rhizophora zone in from W3. 10 specimens of Rhizophora + 1 juvenile, max height 30 feet. Telescopium, Naquetia permaestus, neritas, littorinids.
W19; 1 specimen of Sonneratia alba, 25'. 1 mollusc, Nascriid[?], spider, crabs, Amphibolidae, Ellobiid, blue crab, littoriniids.
W20; 1 specimen of Sonneratia alba with 4 big branches coming off below mud level. 20 feet high. 2 other specimens of Sonneratia same height. 1 specimen of Avicennia marina, 18' high. Columbellids, Telescopium, Littorinids, Neritid, Amphibolidae, Ellobiid.
W21 (outermost from W4); 4 Avicennia marina, max height 25 feet. 1 Sonneratia alba, 20 feet. Columbellidae.
[Sketch map of sample locations, zones A-F, locations 1-26]
24-X-76, Sunday.
[Fred went to Point to do rocky shore transect and SSS went to collect & do oyster work. Description of oyster zone ecology and species given, summary of species observed/collected follow]
green sponges, many large Murex (varicosus[?] ? cervicornis ?), M. secunda, one dead & one living Hyotissa, no Saccostrea, a few number of nudibranchs - dark red-black & white - seemingly mating - a pink one laying eggs - little aeolids like those from Kendrew in patches, 2 urchins, one starfish, a few corals - some[?] diversity none abundant except for a Plesiastraea type.
Up from this zone was a zone of large barnacles - mostly dead & oysters - few of living & dead Saccostrea. Murex varicosus (found lower than main oyster zone), thaid shells containing hermit crabs. Up from this was a zone of abundant oysters - spiny when young - not strongly ribbed - S. commercialis. Chamids, Pearl oysters (P. albida ?) + Septifers occupied the crack & crevices & also attached between oysters. Arcids (3 spp.), Cardilids & tube worms, Haliotis varia & fissurellids (Tugali?), Trochids (Trochus lineatus? & Pantherides[?] sp. ?), columbellid, few reitids, occasional Onchidina[?], Polychaete worms (Nereids & Lepidonotus) were common among & under oysters. The only muricid common in this area was the purple mouthed drupe with rows of fine scales. Hermit crabs were common especially high in the oyster zone. Lepsiella, Bembicium.
Station W22; Rhyophora zone in from W4. 1 large tree Rhyzophora stylosa, 30' high, + roots from another 3 trees just outside area. 1 anemone not taken (too difficult), brown fiddlers c. red claw.
Station W23, out from W22 & W4 etc; 2 trees of Sonneratia, largest 25 feet high. Telescopium
Station W24, out from W5 on outer edge of mangal; 3 Avicennia trees - largest about 18' high, 1 Sonneratia tree, about 20' high. 
[Notes on measuring sizes of zones F to B]
25-X-76
[Description of work done on Point Walsh for morning tide, summary of species observed/collected follows]. Area below green sponge zone exposed - red sponges instead & red gorgonians, some red sponges (leaf like from) had red nudibranchs eating them. Did not see as many nudibranchs or Murex varicosus as yesterday. Got a few Hyotissa, also Chlamys senatorius ?.
[Description of work on oysters, from the area south & westwards from the tip of Point Walsh, extensive description of thaid? "typical of the oyster zone" and a "large thaid seen yesterday" distribution and feeding habits, other species noted include; Isognomons, stripe drupe - like an Agnesia, no sign of Murex permaestus alive - only one dead shell].
Station W25, in Rhizophora zone opposite Station W5; 1 large Rhizophora tree & large branches of three others, 30', Murex permaestus.
Station W 26; 1 little white bivalve outside area. 2 Sonneratia trees, 18 feet.
This completes the works on the sectors.
26-X-76
[Description of work and collection done at at Walsh Point] tide was very low - below the green sponge layer to the red sponge zone. Collected Ovulids on pink & white & on red & yellow gorgonians. The most common species was a large white one - perhaps the same as the two colour form of gorgonian & a yellow-shelled species (one animal) on the pink & white gorgonians. Shore gorgonians were half exposed at low tide. Collected quite a few Hyotissa sp. specimens on boulders in green sponge zone. Examined oyster zoning N. of barge landing. Took photos (Ektachrome film) of oysters & predators from upper limits of oyster zone to lower limits. In upper area only large thaid was feeding though.
27-X-76
[Worked on oysters - inlet near camp at end of FW creek. Summary follows.]
Zone A; Stn 1W - vertical face, 20cm square (=400 sq cm): 16 dead oysters of 1cm diameter or more (<2cm). 59 living oysters of 1-2cm diameter, all flat & foliated except where crowded where they have foliaceous spines, numerous very small oysters -> 5mm diameter approx. 50% alive, rest not bored. No signs of boring in any dead oysters, no predators in this zone, no other molluscs in this zone.
Zone B; Stn 2W - vertical face, 400 sq cm - below Zone A, Stn 1W: 44 dead oysters 1-2cm diam., 4 dead oysters >2cm diam., 114 alive 1-2 cm, 0 alive >2cm, large number <1cm about >90% alive. No other molluscs, predators or anything else. Photo 31, colour Ektachrome at 0.45m.
Zone C; Stn 3W - vertical face, below Zone B Stn 2: 13 dead oysters 1-2cm diam., 18 dead oysters >2cm diam. (long dead), 70 oysters alive 1-2cm diam., 9 oysters alive >2cm diam.
Went to Malcolm Island with Maurie Marshall, Dan Kitchener, Clay, Fred & Barry - near to high tide. Oyster zone covered except for upper zone - similar to Point Walsh area with high spatfall of oysters & mussels (smooth - new species?) & high predation rate by Thaids. Chamas in shallow rock pools just below this level. The fauna look rich - species of shells on beach indicate a good (muddy) sand fauna - tellins[?], venerids, [?] etc. [Trip to Lawley Point to see aboriginal paintings on cave walls & roof, took photos, then returned to camp].
Continued oyster sampling. 
Zone A-B, Stn 4W - horizontal face of boulder sheltered to NW by mangrove tree. B&W photo at 0.45m. 16 dead oysters about 1-2cm diam., 35 alive about 1-2 diam., numerous smaller ones about 60% alive. No other animals (molluscan) in area but small Barbicium (?) in crevices nearby. 
Zone A, Oyster Station 5W: 44 dead oysters 1-2cm diam., 77 alive 1-2 diam., few other small oysters 50% alive. No other animals, no boring seen. B&W photo 0.45m.
Zone B, Oyster Station 6W: B&W photo 0.45m. 53 dead oysters 1-2cm diam., 5 dead >2cm diam., 81 alive 1-2cm diam., 6 alive >2cm diam., and 1 Monodonta labio. No sign of boring
REMEMBER some of dead oysters are long dead.
Zone C, Oyster Station 7W: B&W photo 0.45m. 0 dead oysters 1-2cm diam., 10 dead >2cm diam., 1 alive 1-2cm diam., 17 alive >2cm diam. Other molluscs; Isognomon ephippium -5, Mytelid, black ridged -3. green brown algae 2 sp.  covers >50% of area. No boring.
28-X-76
Oyster Zone A, Stn 8W; in cove (bay) N of Pt. Warrender Bay on S side of bay on top (horizontal face) of large boulder above rocky coral reef >150/25cm2. Photo B&W 0.45m. No predators, large Chitons. All spat dead - all opathalate-bubiferous. Small smooth black mussel - not eaten (ie all alive). Bembicium, no large Thaids seen. [Other species noted, a large Saccostrea echinata, small specimens of echinata among commercialis, descriptions of both given. Collected a small leptonid, noted small smooth black mussel and ribbed mussel.]
[Collected in green sponge zone of Walsh Point - species noted include Murex (ramosis?). M. secunda (3 alive), aeolids, Xenia colonies, octopus, Decatopecten vexillum (?), echinata, commercialis, large Lithophaga. Collected land snails on N side of Walsh Point.]
Oyster Zone A: oyster juveniles v. abundant on sheltered faces of boulders & around bases of mangrove trees - appears to be 2 spp. Other species abundant. Monodonta - very abundant, Nerita lineata, pelorodonta ? orange col., no thaids or muricids. Littorina scabra common in trees as is Bembicium, but neritas not so common here.
29-X-76
[Examined and collected molluscs in mangroves in Zones E & F. Species observed/collected include; nerita, littorinids, Bembicium & mytilids under bark of Sonneratia trees. Additionally collected ellobiids, several unknown specimens described as similar to ellobiids, and Amplirhagada.]
28-X-76
[Continued description of activities on the 28th, worked west of Daryl's camp; collected land snails, Amplirhagada, no live Setobaudina taken, some Pleuropoma, Camaenids, oyster noted as "commonly settled on mangrove stems".]
30-X-76
[Abridged summary of work follows; Visited Site 8, oysters noted a very abundant, few predators, BRW found Placuna in bay near boat. Collected at Crystal Bay; collected FW snails, Gyraulus, Lymnaea in small pond left of small creek. Collected at Crystal Creek pool; Lymnaea, Thiariid, Xanthomelon, Amplirhagada, Setobaudinia & Torresitrachia among sandstone (Leopold) boulders. Visisted estuary, oysters noted as large and abundant, land snails noted; large & high domed Amplirhagada, small rhagada, Xanthomelon. Sampled at north corner of Walsh point; Nerita (undata?) above the oyster zone at HWL, Monodonta & Planaxis ranges over zone, Nerita with orange col. deck is abundant, on mangroves & on rocks; small barnacles, Littorina sp. (fine close ribs) & smooth mussel, collected fungus and dead Amplirhagada & Pleuropoma on slopes above beach. At top of oyster zone; Nerita (undata?), Planaxis, Monodonta, Nerita with orange coloured deck still abundant, but new Nerita - small mast[?] with red flash at centre of coloured deck is now abundant (some variation - must check for 2 spp.), Littorina sp. on rocks, crevices and on bases of mangrove (Ceriops), Acanthochiton sheltering under boulders, Isognomon ephippium clustered in crevices, oyster juveniles (1 or 2 spp.?) are on top of exposed rocks, & in sheltered portions (larger), ribbed mussels & Littorinas higher up on conglomerates & pitted dolerites.]
31-X-76
[Summary of locations visited and species noted follows. North side of Walsh Point; large oysters (echinata?), large limpets - Trochus lineatus. Malcolm Island; No adult oysters seen of W, S or E side of island. Sample[?] spatfall - photo E side of island B&W, (with tape) 0.45m. Acanthochiton, Isognomon ephippium, no predators seen here.]
30-X-76(cont.)
Predators - large thaid - not in large numbers & smaller black & white muricid - black purple with double pink white pre-sutural keel & single rib as well below shoulder on body whorl - hidden under rock.
Upper-midldle oyster zone; Monodonta, Nerita (undulata?), Nerita - orange col. plate & Nerita (red splash on col. plate) all still abundant. Large Thaid common - small muricid; black & white keeled in sheltered positions[?]. Turbo cidaris now common in sheltered positions & in areas of runoff. Cerithiids (2 spp.?) common in areas of runoff where there is a little muddy sand or rubble - some[?] with hermit crabs in them.
31-X-76(cont.)
Collected as many species as I could see - so did Fred. Barry collected mussels - 2 small smooth species (or[?] 1 half ribbed)m 1 small ribbed, one large pilose periostracum Septifer & one other commonly thrown up on beach.
1-XI-76
[Summary of locations visited and species observed collected follow]
9.40am: Inlet near camp; almost all of oyster zone out of water - down to area of mostly dead, all mangrove bases out of water by 1-2 gt. 
9.45am: Boat Ramp on Walsh Point; all mangroves out of water by about 8', about 2 1/2 - 3' vertically. Mangroves south of north corner of Walsh point out by about 20'. North corner of Wash Point only Zone A out. Around N. corner of Walsh Point Zone A -> B out. 
9.55am: McG 1, N corner of MacGregor Point; more[?] exposed - Zone A -> B out of water, mangroves 20' out (4'-5'!?).
Station McG 2, S. corner of MacGregor Pt; mangroves 30' away from water at about 10.10am (ie about 4'6" above water level). Zone A not much settlement of spat? No surviving oysters - good settlement mytilids - no survivors? algae 3-4'6" above water level. limpets 2 spp. large number of thaids in crevices (like Malcolm Island) & below stones above A (Typical of exposed Point conditions). Zone B 3'-> water level & [?] below stones in A, lots thaids. Zone C below water level & below stones in B, no large oysters. Small neritas - no red mark. No orange plate neritas, no oysters in mangroves. Photo 19 on B&W.
McG 3, Just around S. corner of MacGregor Point. Just N. of W. end of cliffs & vine thicket above & around Daryl's old camp, & with N corner of Walsh Point bearing SSE; Mangroves Aegiceras, Aegialites, Avicennia to within 20' of water (about 11am). Oysters on Aegiceras & Aegialites trunks most if not all dead (small juveniles & spat[?]). Photo looking SSW (High speed Ektachrome shot 1). Much better settlement of oysters than further N. but no large ones (>2cm) surviving. Photos HS Ektachrome 2, 3 & 4. Littorinids on Aegiceras tree from bottom in oyster zone A (B&W small form) up through top of oyster zone A to above oyster zone B (yellow form). No obvious settlement of smooth mytilid on rocks or trees - oysters more densely settled & cup shaped.
McG 4; Oyster Zone B->C out of water 11:30? parts shaded. 
McG 5, Aegiceras, NNW of W end of (ie slightly N of NNW of) cliggs & thicket near Daryl's camp. - mangroves 20' from water, Zone C, 11.30? large oysters most dead. Zone B, large oysters most dead no mussels.
Zone A, much higher up mangrove trees. mussels abundant. Thaid low[?] in trees. Littorinids dark & fawn in oyster zone & occasionally on trunks walking above, yellow etc on trunks & leaves above attached.
Between McG5 & McG6; shoreline was sandy at base of gully (vine thicket) & then area of small rocks & slabs of conglomerate with mangroves well back 20-30' & small oysters c. very few in Zone C. 
McG 6, Aegialites, Aegiceras, Avicennia & Rhizophora, NNW of W. end of vine thicket near Daryl's camp (ie: slightly S&W of last station); large boulders on beach (photo HS Ektachrome 5). Avicennia close to water ~10' & Rhizophora just around corner in bay - this area is just inside bay proper - shallow(?) muddy watter, lots of pneumataphore roots. Oysters do not go far up trunks of Avicennia as much, but are on rocks to reasonably high level with overhang on large boulders (see photo). Large oysters to top of Zone A like Pt Warrender Bay near Ca,p. Thaids & Murex permaestus. Ellobiids 2 spp. (including one specimen of spindle shaped white-transparent species found in mangal above supra-mangal mud flat in Pt Warrender Bay.)
McG 7, Rhizophora, Sonneratia, near head of bay on S side of MacGregor Point; small stream runs in from N-end of gravelly sand & mud beyond this ie. to W, mangal looks like that at N end of Pt Warrender Bay mangal on seaward edge, ie: lots of Rhyzophora C. large Sonneratia trees & Telescopium. Photo of Rhyzophora (Photo looking SE to Walsh Pt & Dryl's Camp). Sonneratia trees here & further to E are well settled with oysters. Photo of Sonneratia tree trunk. Watch for mytilids Ryenella. No thaids. Murex permaestus here.
Zone B; large Nerita from mangroves, small nerita, Monodonta, Trochis, large buccinid laying eggs Melongena. 
Large accumulation of recently dead bivalves in pairs in small backwater & around sand-rubble spit just E of head of bay - perhaps they were exposed by low water springs. 
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Stopped LI. V Good settlement of oysters on Sonneratia branches & trunks.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 



 

a desktop study of the current coastal and marine resource condition monitoring) - 2. undertake a short field program to inform the development of monitoring protocols in two intertidal environments - 3. develop a strategic framework with recommendations and a suggested approach to inform and guide a future Coastal and Marine RCM program for the Pilbara and Kimberley regions. This document addresses the first aim of the project, thoroughly reviewing research and monitoring literature for the marine and coastal environments of the Pilbara and Kimberley region.