Excursion to Bambra Reef,  Nov 2009
  

Bambra Reef is at Roches Beach, southeast of Hobart.

BH

A shell-grit encrusted anemone.

BH

Anemone Phlyctenanthus australis in a rockpool.

JW

A brittlestar.

BH

Scutus antipodes,
an elephant snail.

BH

Pleurobranchaea maculata,
a sea slug.

JW

This isopod, possibly Paridotea vivipara, is very cryptic on its sea-lettuce host, Ulva lactuca.

JW / BH

Cushion-star, Patiriella calcar, family Asterinidea.

BH

A tiny false spider crab (family Hymenosomatidae).

JW

Photos by Beth Heap, James Wood.

More at Picasa (Beth) and flickr (James).