Splendid dive with 7 -10 metre viz. High tide. Fiddler rays, stingarees, shoals of zebras in three sizes, goat fish, snapper, morwong, scaly fin, porcupine fish and many toadies. Mussells spreading heavily and now at 3 meters or so depth as well.

  PJ in grotto algae spasmodic, Cystophera returning, blue fork weed some red rag algae (Grateloupia turuturu), but no greater than one per 10 000 sq meters at most.

First sea jelly of the seasonn sighted 1 Feb. Full size Southern Tailed 

 Temp a reasonable 12. New alga distributions. Cystophera beds broken up and poor quality. Baby Toadies in shallows. Urchins low in density. Mussels returned in abundance. Few fish to be sighted in inner laggon. A few stars about, 11 armed, Tosia, common and the small purple one. Very big chitons under rocks. Huge increase in spread of Dictoyopterus muelleri, the bifurcate tipped small brown weed.

 Water cold and clear. Approx 15 degrees. Five divers. Full winter gear. Algae could not look healthier and there is at last re-foliation of Cystophera remotifolia beginning. Very large female Fiddler Ray  (say 1.5 metres) with half that  size male waiting. Plenty of fish. Some very large flathead resting.

Tosia australis were as prolific as they have been or greater than any other time over the past few years. New Undaria,  [although very few sighted], are now 30 cms tall. Slow increase in the blue Dichtyota weed numbers. [Now sparse but seen at least 6 times on each dive]. Plenty of big Morwong. A few Fiddler Rays (small). Algae cover excellent but Cystophera yet to recover. Sargassum growing strongly.