Monday, July 19, 2021

Species List: 18-07-2021, Rotunda all of it, La Balsa Park, Mooloolah River, Mooloolaba, Qld.

17 species sighted at Rotunda all of it, La Balsa Park, Mooloolah River, Mooloolaba, Qld. 18-07-2021.

A single solo shore entry dive with Gary of 230 minutes. Maximum depth 5.1 m, 20 C water temperature, up to 8 m viz.

Sunday sunny day diving...scary. The wind is blowing from the southwest and blowing quite nicely. Because of that the 1.5 m tidal flow was hardly any at all!! The viz was 8 m and a perfect winters dive. Recording Aglaja fulvipunctata again was great. Facelina bourailli was spotted in a photo of a Stonefish.

Species and number thereof sighted
* Species with highest specimen count

Aglaja fulvipunctata -1
Atys sp. 8 shell -1
* Cratena lineata -31
Cratena pawarshindeorum -3
Facelina bourailli -1    
Flabellina lotos -24
Goniobranchus daphne -5
Goniodoridella savignyi -29
Goniodoridella sp. 1 -22
Goniodoridella sp. 16 -1
Hypselodoris obscura -11
Kabeiro christianae -2
Liloa brevis shell -5
Placida kevinleei -1
Retusa amphizosta shell -2
Tenellia sp. 49 -1
Unidentia sp. 1 -13

The River

Liloa brevis

Goniodoridella sp. 1

Kabeiro christianae

Kabeiro christianae

Cratena lineata

Flabellina lotos

Hypselodoris obscura

Unidentia sp. 1

Goniodoridella savignyi

Goniodoridella sp. 16

Flabellina lotos

Aglaja fulvipunctata

Hypselodoris obscura

Goniobranchus daphne

Goniodoridella savignyi x2

A friend

Tenellia sp. 49

Tenellia sp. 49

Liloa brevis

Cratena pawarshindeorum

Cratena pawarshindeorum

Cratena pawarshindeorum

Flabellina lotos

Placida kevinleei

Placida kevinleei

Atys sp. 8

Retusa amphizosta

Retusa amphizosta

Cratena pawarshindeorum

Goniodoridella sp. 1

Substrate

Substrate

Substrate

The Icon

Stonefish

Twin Peaks

Stonefish with Facelina bourailli

Channel marker

Substrate