Koonya Easter camp, 2009 - Dunalley & Sommers Beaches
 

 

 

 

 

 

Searching the rocky shore at low tide, Dunalley Beach... 

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... and finding a Shaws cowfish.

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Ichneumon wasp at Dunalley beach.

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At Sommers Beach we found many of these Philyra laevis pebble crabs.
They blend in beautifully.

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Philyra laevis watching the camera!

 

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The male's "tail" is folded forwards underneath very compactly (right),
whereas the female's is very bulbous (below) for accommodating eggs.

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Carcass of a Cyrioides imperialis,
a large species of jewel beetle,
found behind Sommers Beach.

 

 

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Photos by Amanda Thomson, Geoff Fenton