North Stradbroke Island continued...

I didn't have my shoes to walk over the rocks so Josh carried me, haha.

 Just finished hanging up the seine net

setting up our equipment

 Preparing the bait for the underwater camera

 checking out our seine net catch

 For our research project we looked at changing fish diversity with tidal fluctuations.

 Searching for dugongs... but we didn't see any : (

Our professor doing some dissections 

 Awesome research team!

 Portuguese Man-of-War (Aussies call them Bluebottles)

 Anenomes

 By-The-Wind Sailor

 Goat Island 

Leaving Stradbroke on the ferry

Moreton Bay Research Station on North Stradbroke Island

 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