Koala and a pair of Rainbow Lorikeets
My first snorkel in Australia
Sea Turtle Plastrons
We did some seine netting to look at fish diversity and we released everything we caught.
Blue Spotted Stingray in the net
Flathead
Cowfish
Golden Trevally
Green Paddle Worms
Sentinal Crab
Blue-ringed Octopus! (they can deliver a highly venomous bite)
Flatworm and Sea Squirt
There is a large Aboriginal community on Straddy so there were aboriginal flags painted on eucalyptus trees around the island.
Purple-tipped Bay Anenome
Obscure Nudibranch
A sick Green Sea Turtle on an iv drip (don't worry he got better!)
My research group and vessel
Snorkeling in the mangroves
baby fish in the mangroves
Estuary Stingray
large mole cricket
We did some nighttime tide pooling and saw this Red-eyed Crab
Hammer Oyster
Soldier Crab
Getting ready to start the Green Sea Turtle necropsies
spiny esophagus
another Blue Ringed Octopus (he's a bit agitated)
Goby
Pygmy Squid
Porcupinefish
Leatherjacket
Cane Toad
Southern Dumpling Squid
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