More soft corals in north part (off Primrose Island).
Camped in bay halfway down west side of Hermite Island approximately 20°26'S 115°32'E. Visited Tryal Rocks, visited Balton[?] S and SSE of Tryal Rocks, 30-40' deep - rubble. Went south of Trimouille Island and west of Hermite Island out east to 10 fathom line - very interesting varied ground - no plate corals - gorgonians. Pearl shells on west reef. No Crown of Thorns starfish seen - some other large species seen.
[Detailed notes on trip to Dampier studying marine molluscs, abridged summary of observation and collection follows.]
27/05/1976
Dampier, below sports fields. Saccostrea echinata - high water level to about mid tide level. Description and photos of two types given. Few S. amasa near lower limit of oyster zone. 
28/05/1976
Intertidal rocks to north of swimming pool, Dampier - LW about 5pm. Saccostrea echinata from just below HWL to just below MWL. S. amasa ? from just above MWL to just below. Predators, drupe on oysters and mussels (separate bag).   
Visited plant nursery run by Hamersley Iron, collected live land and fresh water snails and slugs, and a fragment taken from a "cyst" in a bag of compressed peat moss from Germany.
29/05/1976
About 10:30am accompanied by W.C [William Currey?] at Service Jetty, Dampier - just NW of pelletising plant and loading jetty, on NW side about half way along. Hyotissa sinensis on rocks about 15-20 ft (near high tide) on sloping under face with V[?] side uppermost. Plenty of Sponylus[?] and large Chama on same rocks and adjacent ones. No Hyotissa hyotis.
Cleaverville - north of Karratha. LW at about 5:30pm, collected along reef walking south west. Were looking in particular for Coralliophilas and "plate" (Turbinaria type?) coral and none found. 
30/05/1976
W. Currey, P., S.S-S (and Robert and Deborah Currey) departed at 9.30 am[?]  to go to Gidley Island, anchored on south side of Gidley Island on west facing side near large boulder Island [20°27'30" S 116°46'3-" E]. Photos at High Water Level and Mid Water Level. Collected Hyotissa sinensis, H. hyotis, and some smaller oysters might be young of above - one collected (broken) appears to be Ostrea colium. Intertidal boulders are covered with S. amasa from below HWL to about LWL (surveyed near high tide). Oysters in upper level of zone are small and crowded[?]. Those in deeper water are larger and more normally formed even when growing in clumps. No other species of Saccostrea seen.
[Two label(?) slips included at end of notes, both transcribed below.]
SW Corner of Gidley I, Dampier Arch. 30' at hightide, 20°27'30"S 116°46'30"E please check.
SW Corner of Gidley I, Dampier Arch. 30' at hightide, 20°27'30"S 116°46'30"E SSS. 30-V-76
 

18-VIII-79
NNW of Dampier, 19°34'50' 116°08'48", 55 fathoms; Recovered [buoy?] gooseneck barnacles 4 spp?, nudibranches - colours ranging from yellow to pink-brown - with gelatinous eggmasses, dark brown almost shell-less barnacles, smooth white barnacles, one large bristle worm, few small crabs (Leptograpsis type), 1 small mesogastropod[?] (Dialidae?), small pteriids - like Austropteria, oysters - deep cup shaped - possibly O. folium
19-VIII-79 
2 live meso or neogastropods -juveniles, petropod skeletons, forams, Conus, Reunatula[?], eel?, hychord.
20-VIII-79
Monte Bellos, S end of Trimouille I.; Pinctada spp., Pteria sp., isognomids, juvenile oysters, small fissurellids, stomatellids, 1 small venerid, small chamids, small mussels - Musculista? green brown & red, oysters possibly 2 spp., O. folium, chamids (?2 spp.), spondylids 1 sp., vermetids, lithophagid, gastrochamids, 2 spp. Hyotissa, O. folium, O. tuberculata, Pinctada morgarifera, P. albina, Pteriids(?) on Acropora, Pinna (1 or 2 spp.?), Beguina, Arca, cerithiids, 2 cones (1 dead C. textile not taken)
Oyster zone of "little islet", E. side of Trimouille I.; spiny chiton, purple thaid, 2 or 3 other thaids, S. cuccullata, Acmeids (stellata), Chamids, Marmarostoma argyrostoma, ?Hyotissa or Ostrea, buccinids & mitrids(?).
21-VIII-79
Continued processing of Monte Bello material; 2 isopods & 1 shrimp from Hyotissa hyotis, 2 spp. of chamids from reef S of Trimouille & possibly 2 (maybe different from first 2) from intertidal collection E. of Trimouille, 2 large commensal shrimp from Pinna, large Spondylus, O. folium.
22-VII-79
Material from "settling apparatus"; Pinctada albina, Lytocarpus, Electroma zebra.  

AB & SSS collected supra, high intertidal & reef crest, Kendrew Island - Boat Bay - Citadel area;
(1) Supralittoral - splash zone - Mainland opposite Citadel; Littorinids - in shaded areas in rock pools, Filamentous green alga in pools.
(2) High Intertidal - Mainland opposite Citadel; Oyster zone to base of cliff, spiny chitons, Clavarizona type chitons, Siphonarians - with egg masses?, Patellids, Thais hippocastanum, burrowing barnacles cf "Ibla", Brachydonotes sp. - in crevices among oysters, cf Vanikoro sp. among oysters, Saccostrea sp. - singly above & below dense oyster zone, Planaxid - one specimen at upper limit of oyster zone, Barnacles on old oyster shells.
LJ found Monodonta labio on Rosemary I - high intertidal rocks - none so far at Kendrew
(3) Reef Crest - Front Reef N of Citadel (seaward of run-off zone), low tide - 0.4m, on & under boulders & dead coral clumps - in sand beneath boulders; Trochids -small, Gibbula Clanculus (& Vanikoro) - under boulders & dead coral, Fissurellids - under boulders & dead coral, Small turbinids - in pockets in stone boulders, Pyramidellids - in sand under boulders (with holuthurian but not attached), Tectus - on stones, Trochus lineatus - under stones, Cypraea spp. - under boulders - caputserpentis generally in more exposed situations, Capulid - under boulder - with egg capsules, Haliotis sp. - on sides of boulders in depressions & under boulders, Cerithiids - in sand under boulders, Thais echinatium - under & on stones - other thaids & Peristernias & buccinids under stones, Conus dorreensis - in sand other cones under stones, Turbo cf argyrostomus - under & between boulders, Turbo sp. - under stones, Astraea sp. - on rock, Chitons - in crevices in rock. Bivalves: Isognomon sp. - in rock crevices, Carditid spp - in rock crevices, Spondylus spp - on rocks (few under), Ostrea sp. - under rocks, Arcids - under rocks, Venerids - in sand under boulder, Ass'd bivalve - in crevices & burrows in boulders, BRW & LJ collected burrowing molluscs & worms.
Th. 3-V-73
BRW & SSS started a transect from 40 metres to 60 metre mark. AB collected generally in moat area. LJ collected worms. RWG collected crayfish (as he did yesterday) & worked on erosion of rocks.
Fri. 4-V-73
Found second sp. of Littorinid (smooth) - in beach cave. AB found others in supralitt. above oysters, Boat Bay. Early PM all worked on Wester Sector I. RWG, LJ & BRW diving for starfish (5), AB & SSS measuring[?] marking (dipping arm into Nile Blue sulphate sol'n) & recording habitat etc data & taking gonad samples (2 only). Collected Avula & few other shells including large dead Chlamys (lividus?). Late afternoon on descending slide AN & LJ worked inner reef flat area - general collecting. BRW & SSS worked intersect (60-70 metres). Returned to camp at sunset & then worked very low tide infront of Citadel & to SW. Anne found - large camouflaging sea urchin, Astraea, Conus novahollandiae, Haliotis squamosus. Lindsay found Lambis. BRW & SSS - thorny & lamellate Spondylus (spp?) under rocks.
Sat 5-V-73
Worked Western Sector 2; 7? Acanthaster - 2 gonad samples taken 
Inner ride of reef crest; Lambis, Typhis.
Sun 6-V-73
Worked evening tide, general collecting for BRW & Anne - I worked with Lindsay collecting live coral clumps ... on reef. - not very many worms. I collected some weed samples for washing (Caulerpa), 4 nudibranches in soft coral.
Mon. 7-V-73
Benthemia (large) found in weed washings.
9-V-73
(1) On cliff on south side of Camp Beach - photos. small oysters above oyster zone proper. Oyster zone proper [ zone description given]
(2)Area of Citadel; thaids [description of their predation and habits given]
(3)Area of cliff face North of Camp Beach near stake marking transect base; osyers, thaids [description of habit given].
Collected plants over Island, collected dead shells from sand bar.
10-V-73
Finished Western Sectors
Tues 15
Began cliff section of transect [Northern Sectors?] - from peg at base to oyster zone.
Wed. 16-v-73
Went to transect area to complete supralittoral section. Collected v. small spiny chitons & large smooth littorinids in beach cove on Musuem cove. Collected siphonarians - in transect area (or just SW of it), all animals whether above or below oyster zone are yellow spotted. However in sheltered cleft in rock (c sand) just S of stake the animals - necessarily supralittoral - are white spotted. Perhaps function of exposure.
Thurs. 17-V-73 onwards
Poor weather - gales etc prevented work
[At end of notes sketch and description of Transect, divided into subareas with descriptions, species mentioned listed below]
Transect - cliff face above datum peg on line with Transect line stake;
Area 1; algae & mytelids, Echinometra mathaei.
Area 2, 5cm - 36cm; Xenia & algae - red leafy & coralline, many burrowing mytilids & tube worms - a few burrowing barnacles, Barbatia sp., Venerupis sp. & Hipponicids & sipunculids(?) in crevices & burrows.
Area 3, 36cm to 63cm; Colonial anemones - mauve when contracted, tube worms - burrowing (black) & free (horny-pink), burrowing barnacles, with a few free barnacles (lower) & Lithothamnion. 
Area 4, 63cm to 107cm; single anemones (green & grey when expanded), oysters singly & in clumps of 2-4. large barnacles on oysters - burrowing barnacles, filamentous green alga.
Area 5, 107cm to 152cm; Oysters (single), Patellids, large barnacles, Siphonarians, many burrowing tube worms, fewer burrowing barnacles than in Area 4, some anemones (single) in deepest depression of notch with green alga, otherwise Lithothamnion.
Area 6a, 152cm to 210cm; Oyster zone proper.
Area 6, Small depression in Oyster zone, 188cm level at bottom of depression.
Area 7, Oyster ridge on platform rising about 8cm above general platform level, of 210cm from peg; Among oysters - small bivalves (Kellia?) & small gastropods like Vanikoro, with small glassy barnacles, pale anemones (perhaps Sipunculids), worms (nereids).