Promoting links between the health of Port Phillip and Western Port and its diverse communties.

Better Bays and Waterways All read please	John Tunn indigenous archaeologist in refection mode
Mt Martha rising behind a spit of terns
Graceful turn	Glenda- volunteer from Birds Australia
Moon shell egg sac	Jan Carey from Melbourne Uni laying a transect for the Pest survey
Andrew Vance - doing the Marine Pest survey	agic garden- Mud Island - Sea sqirts and Electroma gorgiana
Northern Pacific Seastar- watch out- here Mark Rodrigue is telling us that there is probably more biomass of this beast than all the fish in the Bay	looking acroos the island to the lagoon (Saltbush and Glassworts behind)
edge of the seagrass meadow	Seagrass meadow
Anyone know the name of this one? Aha - Codium fragile - possible marine pest Professor Jan is taking this one back to the lab.	And this? Caulerpa brownii Named thanks to Mark's guide Life on the Edge about the Barwon Bluff Marine Sanctuary
And this starfish?	Abandoned Ibis egg
Banjo sharks abounded in the shallow water around Mud Islands	Close up of a Banjo Shark buried in sand showing its eye and spiracle
Peter, one of our resident scientist from Monash, callibrating the water quality equipment. He and Prof.Ian McKelvie are rarely on deck at the moment.	Michelle getting some help from Aunty Carolyn Briggs, Boonwurrung Elder
Crested terns on a sand spit	Dr Jan Carey with one of the Northern Pacific Sea Stars that were surveyed in Mud Islands. The good news anecdotally is that there were less observed than last year.!
Healthy seagrass	Ibis nest
Pelicans in the central lagoon in Mud Islands	Seagrass covered in algae - possibly due to poor water quality (high nutrient levels) in the Bay.