Dimitri's which was closed and we went to another cafe. Cromer[?] says that Robinson is now trying to make friends with him but he is very angry about the article in the Skin Divers magazine written by Robinson. He confirmed the story about the detonators and advised us that the road north through Murchison shire[?] would be out of action. He says that it is probable that the truth about the bullion[?] is mid way between Robinson and friends. He admitted that he had been playing down the Robinson story. He is particularly anxious that the -----[?] should not be stampeded. To bed.

> 15 July Monday Geraldton
Marquis Hotel. Filled up with petrol, all tanks. Drove over to fill up. Met Max Cromer[?] who told us that he had seen the postum from Kalbarri who said that the road to Murchison Housewas u.s. - river too high. Also the country around Gie Gie flooded. Said that Murchison House was on the phone. Frank lors[?] rang Murchison House (McClintock) who confirmed and said that Eurardy would also be impossible & suggested that we go up through Tamala. Drove out to the airport & picked up Colin Jack-Huiston, Harry Buglin[?] and Bob Beveridge  (hired for the job). Took them down to the docks and saw them set up for the Blue Dolphin and set off ourselves.

Called at the Police Station for Colin Dower (CIB Det. Sergeant who acendines us) to report in. Met Sgt Alan Trigwell & Det. Const. Frank Kirby who have been investigating the Geraldton end of the thing. Trigwell is a keen coin collector and has a lovely piece from the Batavia which he showed me. Left Geraldton about 10.30. Called at Billabong Roadhouse for lunch, 91/2 gals. Shark bay turn off. 1400hrs.

Fork left for Tamala (signpost 30 miles)
Fork left (right fork signposted to The Loop)
Fence and gate.
Met Bill Hughes and Mrs Gervais. Extremely helpful. He is manager and she is ?; they came here from Ashburton Downs when that place was sold up. Before that they were in? Yeeda. He was most helpful and drove with us through the Tamala country to get us through the gates. They work through Carnarvon Flying Doc. call sign 8 FOXTROT ROMEO.
Homestead gate. Through this and then to South.
Gate
Cocky gate
Cocky gate Fork right
Cocky gate about 90* through : left fork.
Through cocky gate into sheep pen in corner of paddock then out of sheep pen and along fence line [sketch]
Fork left

Natta outcamp, a tin shed with mill some distance from it, al troughs. Bill Hughes left us to go in from here. This is a fantastic paddock with high grass and clover right through. They are supposed to have 6-7* and they already had 16 ins this year. Drive on down, reached windmill at, obviously took wrong turn. Came to a fork among some white gums obviously went wrong here through following the rain mill track. Turned left this time instead of right [1 mile should be deleted for all moments of distance from Tamala to the wreck site]
Fork left
Gate in fence
Tank with shelter catchment
Tank with shelter catchment
Multiple tanks with shade
Single tank
Single tank with good water and clean catchment

Post in sight of track in open heath ; turned off main track to Murchison House towards the sea - very rocky track.
On top of cliffs

There is a howling westerly blowing - obviously a bad place to camp. Drove back up the track to a spot out of the wind in the trees (ti-tree) and bedded down. Had good meal of T-bone steak & potatoes. Caught a kangaroo-tick crawling up into ace milk mixer which was put down on the ground - very tricky country this coastal sandplain and sun.

Turned in at about 10.00 pm.

> 16 July (Tuesday) Zuytdorp Site
Up at 5.30 am, cold but sheltered spot, breakfast. 
Tried to reach Blue Dolphin on the walkie-talkies no luck. Drove down to cliff top just at first light and saw Blue Dolphin sailing about 1 mile off shore and about 2 miles to the south of Zuytdorp Cliffs.

This is an incredible place. Both to north amd south stretches the long broken line of cliffs with a short platform and chin bone[?] and a continuous line of breakers along its length as the big ocean surf comes in and plunges into it. At this place dune is a sloping valley running down through a dip in the cliffs so that the scramble down is over a tumbled and relatively easy rock scree for about 80 or 90 ft. The cliffs on either side are much higher about 100ft. The Zuytdorp lies just off a reetment[?] into the shore platform ; and coins and other bits of debris have been washed up into the platform and cemented into the crevices there. These have been collected by people over the years. Blue Dolphin stood in and made several runs as close to the line of breakers as she dared. The bottom shelves much more gently than we expected. Out beyond the breakers it is still only about 4 fathoms on the echo sounder. Colin and Clem Moss(the skipper) made several runs backwards and forewards. The wind was a light Easterly but the heavy swell makes the otherwise calm sea very dangerous ashore.

Wind suddenly swung round to the south west and the sea became broken. Colin decided too dangerous to get into the water because of difficulty of picking up divers. I gave them permission to go back to Geraldton.

Bradley Pearce and Frank Moss did a lot of filming and recorded 2 way conversations between Colin and self. I took a lot of photographs of the site and collected samples of the rocks. Seems to be very much the same as Green Bluff, i.e. Bothiembryon limestone, calcarenite and aeilminate[?], may be a little new siliciens[?] open and Rudl[?] but this is only a guess.[Bothiembryon limestone with fossil negel. no 68.563] Collected a cowrie in a rockpool encrusted with coral. Colin Power collected a small coin (silver and copper) from a crevice[C. caputi serpenitis]. Drove back to camp and packed up. Left cape for Tamala.

Stopped on the track at the turnoff, this seems to be in the Murchison House Boundary. Took photos - sandplain, prolific flora all in bloom, a wonderful site. Will propose that this place be set aside as a reserve possibly National Park, , certainly the cliffs warrant it and, combined with sandplain and the historic interest, it should be preserved.

Drove back to Tamala on way back stopped at second tank and had lunch. Attacked by ticks - everywhere. I hope we got them all off before being bitten. Tamala - a beauty must tell Glen. Turned left across a salt pan (coming from Tamala this would be a right fork leading to the west of the rubbish tip) to go out to the aboriginal burial ground. Through a couple of gates and into a large blowout area, finally, towards the further end of the blowout we stopped and Frank Moss showed me where they collected the shells for the museum. The area is rapidly deflating and skeletons are breaking up rapidly. Seems to have been some sort of interference already.Femurs and pelvises show odd numbers of individuals in each heap of bones[?] sometimes 2 or 2 1/2 individuals. 1 child's skeleton exposed and almost weathered away. Collected a skull (len facial again)[?] from an exposed skeleton at the far end of the blowout for the station homestead. Built cairn and photographed in situ. Strange that these skeletons seem to have been buried with bailers, patella and other shells. Found one sheep's head with skeleton (photographed) but later find sheep's skeleton nearby without head - suspect plant - photographed.

Back to Tamala. Dropped in and had a drink with Bill Hughes and wife (? Mrs Gervais). She seems to be a part blood, but very (?bottle) blonde hair. Still she seems to suit him, very hospitable. They are shearing about 10,000 and have these in about half the station i e c. 200,000 acres[?]. Total is about 400,000. He has some interesting wooden artifacts at the station brought down with him from Yeeda. Left at about 7.00pm.

Drove on to the Billabong cafe for a good meal of schnapper and eggs. Camped at Murchison R. usual place.

> 17 July (Wednesday)
Up at first light. Before getting off recorded an interview fr TUW on the wreck business[?]. Sent telegram through VJQ

MEAGHER PHONE 611122 PERTH. JOB DONE BACK TONIGHT REGARDS DAVID....

> 24th June 1964
Take off Carnarvon, low cloud and rain (light), all roads are closed north of town. Boolathana, photo of clay pans & salt lake on Quobba country flooded, ASI 140. All country here, i.e. E of large salt lake, seemed to be spinifex in flats with ironstone sand on gravel rises with sparse mulga. Claypans here seem to be oriented approx N/S a high there is no sign of the Boologooro redhills(?), must be earlier. Minilya HS large river gums along river, spinifex in between, claypans with low rise covered with sparse (?mulga) sand. Breakaways of a low range directed by eastward flagstones. Breakaways face west and streams from there to the Western lake are very short, from there backs browner they are clay streams flowing east into the claypan system to the west of the highway. Learmonth road  .... length stream flowing into the northern end of the lakes system (Cardadia Creek). The breakaways must be the edge of the Cretaceous. Now in red Cainozoic (?) sands of Cape. E.W. road crosses river and scrubby range to our east. Flat bedded sediments exposed on western sides of range. River flowing through K. sediments, good exposures in bands, river flows from n-s +1 fence, +1 fence +1 fence +fence. Bullara Homestead (I must tell Glen. Excellent rubbish dump!) Sandhills trending SSW.

Rough Range. Breakaways along S.C. side of range (i.e. edge of a plateau), deep creeks with trees in gorges. Coming down to Learmonth Strip, leaving Learmonth Strip. Turned off road south of airstrip, truck just past creek crossing (concrete) marker in sandhill at post in east of area C, post 513.
92.4 Fence line, very slightly w of north
92.9 Corner fence lines approx nw
95.3 big circle
394.0 Corner near ....(?)
393.3 through fence at mill & back along Fu.... track
394.5 back at corner & turn straight on along the direction of the short fence to the mill 220*. Line of pegs at small barbed wire enclave, sign reads Corrosion testing, metal samples buried "Location F".
395.3 Red peg BB..R1 White pegs 1107 &1089, line of pegs due south & N.
95.5 last pegs for final clo.. - well defined track
96.2 Wide creek no pegs turned back.
96.5 Xroads just beyond our original turnoff. bery trig pt. 39*.
Pegs (300/8500 : 9400 :9300 342 in ascending value.
900  9100 Back at testing clearing - peg 11107 Al. disc in peg T5 - 1.
Lasts & surveys connect just. E/5.
400.0 Try P... ridge beams. Back at 225* Drive back along ridge to main track ie firebreak to main road. fr is cross road 400.9 between .... 7 concrete creek crossing (R... 401.01), 8404.2 Run through
408.2 Back at airstrip.

Decided to spend night at Learmonth to collect fossil, Lt. Col. Keith Murdoch MBE, Civil Commission, Exmouth, (A.J.) Lee Brunning, Jack Neal. Spent the whole afternoon with Lee Brunning looking for the line of pegs but no luck at all. Found the West Base Trig and tried to pick up the line of pegs but no luck. They should be metal fenceposts with aluminium discs attached to them (Commonwealth surveyor back at Learmonth informed me afterwards). They run in extremely rough limestone foothill country.

Cave paintings at Talgarno. C'wealth Surveyor Arthur Dawson, approx S-SE of Talgarno Tn.site, approx 35 miles : Circles, reptile, Included Hill- overhang with cave shelter. Dawson has accurate fix of spot in his survey notes. Write to Chief ...... Officer, Dept of Interior, 11-15 William St., Perth

> 25th June
Take off DC3 Learmonth. [K1]Coast south of Onslow flooded mud flats, creeks & mangroves. 13.15[2B] Onslow.

14.15 Back at Barrow [K - all the rest] of island. Found Dampier Archipelago coming up. ETA Hedland is 15.40. Have sent message to XW via DCA to inform them. We may catch them on the ground & save a night in Hedland [K8] of Dampier Archipelago and Kanasclen country and also[3B] of Northern Springs only. Remarkable silhouette.

15.10 Discovered that an ETA now 15.50 will just miss the party in Hedland by 10 mins. Pilot decided to put me down to try.

Arrived Hedland, Aerocommander still on strip at Xstrips, pilot pulled up & I jumped out & scrambled into A/C & off !! Now to get into Broome before dark !

Broome : people to contact : John Tapper & brother Edgar (medico), Peter Hinchley engineer,, Dr Des Kelly. Small footprinters(?) K.B. Spry, Broome, job prospects, letter to me in Perth making enquiries.

[K1] coastal .... at Talgarno. Very clear in lowering sun, old coastline also shows up very well.

Get address of Australian Natural History for John Tapper. Dr Bill Smith physician at Chest Hospital.

John Tapper described a possum with short ears, large eyes, scaley bare tail like a file which he caught in the cylinder box at Entrance point - clearly Wyulda [squamicaudata]. He let it go in his garden.

> 26th June
Photos of luggers (?) ; Dampier West etc. Went with John Tapper and Peter Hinchley to the new jetty & to Entrance Point. Saw the usual(?) scappy plst fossils at new jetty, then on to Entrance Point and took photo of general view . Bloodwoods, Banksia, Corktrees.

Taxi out to the take off for survey of Dampier (?) land. B7W with green filter x 2, colour at 25AsA. [K1] [B1], photos of Pindan 500ft just before Barred creek(?), Quondong Downs (?), Point Coulomb,

[2K] [2B]Cape Bertholet turned 90* along 236802 north, sandy, AS130K, 1443. Changed B&W in camera, tried 90*note 14.50. Camera now at B in 4, K in 23. Last photo before turning E some drifts of same etc at coast at Cape Bertholet. Pilot estimates about 15 mls.

The study of the ..... seems to be very dense for Pindan - there are flowering acacias, ? cadeppents & pandanus in the creeks - well integrated with creeks.

Coming up to Beagle Bay 1457 [1K] [1BW] of much more typical Pindan.[1K][1B] of mangroves at Beagle Bay looking E. close into Bay.

Pindan in flower[2K][1B] cutting across to Pender Bay. Pender Bay turned East up Kelk Creek 150 about halfway along creek[1K] +[1B] (mudflats & kadgetty) up here there seems much less like pindan. Roos [K1] Donkeys (Bill) been at500 ft all the way so far.1512 Turned new course for Derby for about centre of peninsula 158* [1K] pindan with white .......[K1] Creek at Disaster Bay [B1] Big boas in midst of pindan 1520 Valentine Island coming up [B2] of Derby.

Derby

Documents (a) Postmaster : explain ..... decision (b) Alan Ridge (c) McGregor fossils for Kainzoic library freelists 21c for John Tozer (d) Glen Cairns Native Welfare (e) Jim Coleman. Basil McQuade, note Cencil Lands (?).

> 27th June
Take off from Derby. Before takeoff [2K] [2B] of the Prison Tree and of the Royal Flying Doctor Service tablet.

Meda Homestead , Mt Hart strip (Clearskin(?) directly overhead, very rough & broken country. Headwaters of Barker River. There is an old strip there, looks very interesting country, rough as blazes. Synnot Range, very big tableland country, huge breakaways down into narrow valleys with good waters.[K1] just short of Gibb River, photo towards SSE [K1] Gibb R. sandy bed, altitude 7000. Gally forest in headwaters of Durack R. [K1], Durack R. further downstream [K1]. END OF FILM.

Breakaways to the SE of the Gut(?) [K1]

[2K] View of Wyndham [1B], Wyndham town [1B] Meatworks. [K1] Rayes(?) with Ord River between [B1] Kununurra.

> 28 June 1964
Parry's lagoon on the ground. Echidna collected in Saw Ranges nr Wyndham, Mark Nevill, 1963 / 4 Christmas.

Took Halls Creek Rd to Kununurra [K2] in hills near Parry's Creek : Eucalypts on hills, boabs, colewoods(?), cassias & other deciduous trees in valleys [K1] between hills. Here less eucalypts and more deciduous [K1] from range of hills near creek to across the plain to Kununurra, white tipped post in picture, white top about 10 in.[3K] Dunham River Bridge +[1K] Bandicoot Br, Ord R.

> 29 June 1964
0520 Climbed Kelly's Knob in order to check reported fossil in the Precambrian quartzite on the top. Not a fossil.

0800 left Kununurra. 0838 bus(?) take off Wyndham, course 185*, 120 knots

0857 [K1] [B1] Gorge ? King R. Looley West along Cockburn Ra. 0905 140 knots, course 180*, 8000 ft. Turkey Creek looking west [K1] [B1]end of film. Violet Valley Country [all Kodachromes to date are probably out of focus] This is very dry country, looks like sandstone savannah, so much for the myth that the Wyalda country is high rainfall country. Now b&w.

[B1] Taken looking west, sandstone savannah country typical of Violet Valley crossed main road immediately afterwards. Country here dissected by creeks with lines of trees. Very broken country wide NS Ranges across the river. All these streams seem to be headwaters of the Ord. There is a peculiar small portal of sediments in a formation 10* from Halls Creek, 10-20 m. appears to lie among Precambrian. Trends NS on opposite side of river to the main ranges. Good exposures[Check this] Well west of main road, circles Halls Creek[K1] [B1]of town & looking west [2K] at low level looking oast. 0953 Air strip.

Examined skeleton at police stn., Aboriginal (?male)  caves in anthill burial. Moola Bulla Skeleton, Const. Dwyer (says burial ground nr. Mt. Burnet(?). Appleby says that there is another stn. Flora Valley.

Prospecting Company. Pickards Mather & co. Industrial. George Hanna Camp manager, Donald Perkin, geologist, Sydney. C. of PM Halls Creek, Don Ealey, Project Chief. Donald Perkin is a good one with a fine collection of pickup artifacts. They collect insects for New England.

Take off for Fitzroy Crossing by road route. Country seems to be mostly flat alluvial works with the remains of an old plateau along ... ... torn bits of breakaways looks rather like Nullagine country.

Koongie Park[Aboriginal Community] claypan country, Lamboo, May River [K1] [B1] flat burnt out country with rivers & long ranges in distance. Margaret R.[K1][B4] junction of May & Margaret [K1][B1] Louisa(?) Downs on Margaret R.[K1B1], Red Bluff & Mt Frank. Spinifex plain, gently undulating with N.s..fit... wood and small eucalypts.

1350 Red Bluff[K1B1] halfway between Red Bluff & Wolaria(?) Downs> [B3K] in gorge. Hancligan(?) Cliffs. Christmas Creek[1K]taken Cooley N. way from the station. Chestnut Bore, all of the country, green spinifex pindan(?) with small trees scattered about. Nipper Creek a gaggle of eucalypts across the plain, gigantic anthills & N..... everywhere.1420 [K2] Emanuel Ra.

> 30th June 64
John Greymark, Senior Constable, Norm Newland, Const [Inspector Gallagher Browne], Joy & Jack Sandford, Mrs Newland is a Mungton (?) girl, Bath St., Dulcie (Peg) Edgington (Cec Edgington, Hardware).

(saiwon) Wangillee (jillie) =cycles "golliwog" police native. Met Jim Clarks and Directu Liverings, Ted McLarty, Luluigui, Mac, McNamara. Jubilee Duncan Boston, Noonkan. They say that Karrabul are quite common on Luluigui and Liveringa country. Rabbits have been seen towards the end of the dry season on Jubilee by McLarty, Waciots (?) appear to be quite plentiful along the river country. Saw Jeff Rose on Quanbun and went up to Aligator Dam (now Jubilee Dam) also went to the dam futen made. There is a curious white conglomerate at Aligator Dam but not in the more northern of the dams, suspect that this is the material from which fossils obtained. Collected specimens, no bore (?) : 12804 - 12805 Geological catalogue. (Added) From examining these fossils on the occasion of their accession to the collection on 22/9/66, it appears probable that the site is the same as that visited by Douglas & Kendrick on 1/7/66 this is 12 miles by road from Fitzroy Crossing Post Office & I have endorsed the labels etc accordingly numbers are 66.884 to 66.898 GWK.

> 1 July
Drove out to exposures of Fairfield beds beyond airfield on road to Derby, collected front fossils. Take off [K2] of .... inn [K1] near trig hill [B1] at about 1000ft, climbing to make light near Alexander Island, 3000 ft triodia. The [K1]B1], long ridges of ? Fairfield beds exposed, on bearing strike 230* may be old sandhills. Jubilee Homestead [K1] on bend of river, taken looking over towards Jubilee Dam on Quanbun Downs (Aligator Tank). Ht 7000 Very broken range country over on the left i.e. south of the river i.e. Permian grant Fn of St. George's Range [K1].

Quite a lot of bare fidhill country red sand, remainder particularly to the west is sand and triodia. The bare sand is fine pattern [K1][B1], 8,200.The Bowns probably listing too far open.

Breakaways [K1][B1] capped with a hard crust of greenish more friable material beneath matches Springs.

Abeam of Mowla bluff, Edgar Ranges a very broken piece of country clear of the sandhills. Headwaters of Geegully creek[K1] [B1] Woyley slightly W. of Nack, 8000 [K1][B1]looking 150* Wapet track, vegetation the same as further east, long sandhills evenly spaced, very few chains. Study about +EW. Passing to the west of the most easterly of the salt lake chain of the extinct Tilgano river. Chain dunes seem to be very stable, vegetation in the links, almosts if the dune system is beginning to break down - in fact the chains are commonest towards the ends of the dunes. Crossing the salt lake system(most northern chain)have some of the chain dunes are beginning to blow out. There is water in the lakes and also in interclinal depressions. Change course to 230*, Ht 8000. Sandhills finish. Main channel of Talga R., sandhills start again.[K1]. Dunes now cleared to coast with fine change to sandhills clear. Sandhills finish. Open triodia plain with small isolated lumps of breakaway. Very much fire damage, whole square miles denuded. We have been flying along the outer edge of the sandhills. Low features with streams and vegetation in valleys, sandhills start again but we are only crossing the western end about a mile inland. Junction of Nullagine R., De Grey and Oakover River head. Passing east of small range of broken hills at headwaters of Calleon Creek [K1][B1] along DeGrey crossing Bamboo creek, photo in angle of range at about 250*.

Marble Bar town, Mines Office, 2000ft coming into land, looking SSW approx. Marble Bar Mr. B.H. Stubbs was the person responsible for the rabbit bandicoot. Have told him that Douglas and Butler will call.

Take off for Nullagine, course 150*. Crossed the Marble Bar hills and now on a flat spinifex plain to the west of very broken country. hills on NW of Nullagine, mostly rough country with spinifex and a few trees.[K1] tributaries of Nullagine River flowing eastwards on edge of hills less than 10 m. from Nullagine.[K1][K1][B1] Nullagine township. W  illiam M. McKinnon is reputed to be mining diamonds in the conglomerate. 74 Duckland St N. Perth.

> 2nd July 1964
Nullagine takeoff course 195*. East of Bonney Downs Homestead [K1] Roy Hill beds, breakaways n. of Roy Hill to the immediate W. of the road. Good exposures 8000Ft@140K. The Fortescue here flows west along a flat plain jumped up from the breakaway to the north. Looks very much like Mulga Downs country. Roy Hill directly underneath, photo taken west [K1][K1] Mt Newman and the Ophthalmia Range looking west. Eastwards flowing Fortescue round the top of the Ophthalmia Range. Spinifex and ironstone sand country with little relief.

Booloo Downs Homestead. Headwaters of the Ashburton R. Some flat slightly rolling spinifex country with trees along creeks. [K1][B1]8000 looking west. Collier Range[K2] looking west. Abeam of 3Rivers

Homestead. Flat ironstone sand country , spinifex some mulga. At Gascoyne R flowing westwards[K1][B1] looking west. Crossing highway south of Doolgunna Homestead & just south of Robertson Range. Course changed to 210* more  or less// add to east of road.

Sherwood and Yoothapina coming in to land at Meekatharra. Mulga to the north is v. patchy and seems to be very dry in the area drained by the many tributaries of the Murchison itself seems to be more dense to the west, east & south [K1][B1] Mulga is dense to the west, east & south but this may only be on deck.(Meekatharra). Take off for Leonora course 135*[K1][B1] looking south 3000ft. Passed Hillview, 7,500 (Real 6,200) Course 135* ASI. 140. Among Montague Range a very nondescript set of low breakaways down to a lower level. There is a curious little patch of (long N.S. dunes) on top of dunes?. Lake Mason : very poor exposures. A few small breakaways a mile or so from the northern bank. Lake itself has very gently sloping margin. Airstrip abeam, coming up for Leinster Downs, red soil with scattered mulga.

Lawlers. Coming up for Wildara above the main road to Leonora, largish creeks with eucalypts, remainder still seems to be gently undulating red soil with not very dense mulga and some sort of greyish low cover. Sturt Meadows Homestead [K1][B1] 4000 ft. Clover Downs & Lake Raeside in background, poor exposures, white river gums along creeks, grey foliage of shrubs? away from river must be mulga the shadows come right down to the ground[K1].

[K1][B1] of Gwalia & Leonora : Sons of Gwalia mine. Landing. Took [K&B] of mine, end of films.

Sons of Gwalia, Mr. R.A.Barden, general manager of Mine, Has first 10 folders of correspondence 1898-1904, including correspondence of Herbert Hoover 1st Agreement & between prospectus & S. of G. Mr Barden will leave here within six months.

> 3rd July 1964
Took[K] of mulga at aerodrome [B4] [new film], of mulga, grass, sticks and solanaceous plant. Up above Leonora, course 175* straight to Kalgoorlie. Dense mulga cover, Alt.6,000 looking west ; patches of ?eucalypt beginning to come in particularly along the shallow stream washes [K1][B1] looking west. Salt lakes  crossed ? skyline a few poor exposures at Radd-Western? and otherwise mostly gently shelving banks even creeks flowing in have very poor banks.

Mulga / eucalypt mixture looking west [K1][B1] suggest grey mulga - darker eucalypt. More lakes, still mixed mulga eucalypt. Descent begins.

[K1][B1]  2500 alt., [K1] of spoil heaps at mine on deck, Alt. 0900ft.

In air on way to Perth[K1][B1] two kinds of eucalypt, 1 green, 1 grey, green with shiny leaves & brown stems, grey with whitish stems....

[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.

 

 

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