Cawaci (Fiji): 25 November 2006

"Had to abandon the monitoring on November 18th as the strong winds & current made it impossible to do anything. Went out again on November 25th and were successful. The weather was great – women out fishing close to the sites!." Text: Nicolette Yoshida

Semakau (Singapore): 22 November 2006

"An amphibious landing on Semakau was achieved by the intrepid TeamSeagrass! With a very obliging boatman at the helm, we managed to get off onto the seagrass meadows without having to swim. In the desultory drizzle, the vast meadows of Semakau was quite romantic. Semakau has magnificent reefs too. Despite the proximity of gigantic petrochemical plants, and our landfill, Semakau's reefs are very much alive.." Text: Team Seagrass-Singapore. TeamSeagrass Website Click here

Midge Point (Whitsundays): 18 November 2006

"Normally at this time of year we find a lot of the seagrass spindly and dried out. But this time most of it was nice and green and long." Text: Paul & Jennifer Wenzler

Montupore Island (Papua New Guinea): 08-10 November 2006

Chek Jawa (Singapore): 08 November 2006

Team seagrass was back in booties on the shore to check out Chek Jawa on Wednesday, 8 Nov 06. Robert and Jackie of Ubin NParks accompanied us to this humungous seagrass meadow.

Tinnanbar (Great Sandy Strait): 05 November 2006

"On the Sunday, 5th Nov Robyn Bailey, Pat Cottle and I returned to Tinnanbar to TN2. This site showed a serious decline, with no feeding trails, which were especially noted in May." Text: Gordon Cottle

Dauan Island (Torres Strait): 03 November 2006

Jane Mellors (Seagrass-Watch HQ) visited Dauan Island Primary School and talked to the students about seagrass biology and ecology. Dauan, is a small island with steep hills, composed largely of granite, very close to the southwestern coastline of New Guinea.

Inskip Point (Great Sandy Strait): 03 November 2006

"I was invited and had the pleasure of going out to the monitoring site at Inskip Point with Gordon Cottle, Hanne Larsen and Cooloola Coastcare Coordinator Maree Pryor. What an insight into the important work that these and other volunteers like them carry out. Without such passion and commitment where would we be or rather where would our marine life and the environment be. Just one voice but thank you to your organisation." Text: Janet Heath

Shelly Beach (SB2, Townsville): 03 November 2006

"Sampling on Friday at SB2, went well - no crocodiles seen - and we had 7 volunteers in total - pretty good for a work day. We found two Anenomes - one on Transect 1 and one on Transect 3, also on the walk out we found what appears (if anyone could confirm) to be colourful soft coral - an interesting day in all." Text: Naomi Smith

Yule Point (Cairns): 02 November 2006

Tom Collis and students from North Queensland TAFE, with the assistance of Len McKenzie and Rudi Yoshida (from Seagrass-Watch HQ), monitored the Yule Point sites during the last good low spring tides for the year. This was also the last location to be sampled as part of the Great Barrier Reef Water Quality Protection Plan Biological Monitoring for 2006

Back Beach (Thursday Island, Torres Strait): 02 November 2006

Monitoring at TI1 was supported by the Year 12 Multi Strand class who not only collected the data but also taught and mentored the Year Sevens from Boigu and Dauan Island who were visiting TI High as part of their high school orientation.

Front Beach (Thursday Island, Torres Strait): 01 November 2006

TI2 monitoring was a race against the tide, but the experienced team of Jane, Kinam, Catherine and Beccie took it in their stride, with help from Mr Hack.

Hammond Island (Torres Strait): 01 November 2006

Jane Mellors (Seagrass-Watch HQ) also visited Hammond Island to discuss potential sites for monitoring with the Hammond Island Indigenous Rangers.

Wongai Beach (Horn Island, Torres Strait): 31 October 2006

At HI1, the regular crew of high school students were joined by Andrew, Billy, Elizah (Kaiwalagal Indigenous Rangers) and Miya (Regional Natural Resource Management Facilitator, Torres Strait Regional Authority).

Chek Jawa (Singapore): 08 October 2006

The low spring tides provided an opportunity to visit Chek Jawa, one of the few remaining seagrass meadows in Singapore. Under the guidence of Ria Tan and Siti Maryam Yaakub, Len McKenzie and Rudi Yoshida (from Seagrass-Watch HQ) examined one of the first locations in Singapore planned for Seagrass-Watch monitoring.

Johor Bahru (Malaysia): 07 October 2006

Under the expert guide of Choo Chee Kuang (SOS Malaysia), Len McKenzie and Rudi Yoshida (from Seagrass-Watch HQ) together with Siti Maryam Yaakub (Singapore) were treated to a very interesting and enjoyable afternoon, visiting seagrass sites along the Pulai River Estuary and the Sekolah Kebangsaan Tanjung Kupang school in Johor Bahru, which has an education program on conservation of mangrove and seagrass.

Bushland Beach (Townsville): 07 October 2006

"There were a few new recruits from James Cook University who learnt about Seagrass-Watch through a seminar by Dr Jane Mellors (DPI&F), and of course we had the site co-ordinator Lux Foot and the other members from the Northern Beaches Rotary. The Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries had their sampling team at Bushland Beach (BB1) collecting for the Great Barrier Reef - Reef Water Quality Protection Plan (RWQPP), and they lent assistance with the seed counting once they finished their task. Cairns based DPI&F scientist, Dr Rob Coles and his family, helped with both the RWQPP and SeagrassWatch." Text: Catherine Walsh

Shelly Beach (Townsville): 07 October 2006

"15 keen Seagrass-Watchers descended on the Pallarenda National Park, to begin the final survey of the Shelley Beach site 1 for 2006. Of the interesting features and items observed were the high build-up of sand on transect one, which was much higher and exposed compared to the other transects. It was at this same site and transect that the highest number of seeds were found in our previous visit. Again, the most seeds counted were from this transect." Text: Posa Skelton