Bath 1994

“Huge boulders of Pleistocene limestone, the work of long dead corals, take a battering in the breaker zone”.

Pic 1. Holstein cow, waves break on rocks of “The Platform”. feeding on cane trash in field overlooking Bath. Just above the cow. Seagrass beds were concentrated in the area in the lee of The Platform.

Pic 2. View looking further south; headland is Conset Point, Conset Bay obscured.

Pic 3. Setting out around Low Tide – lagoon water clarity was generally good 2 hours before to 1 hr after Low Tide, turbid at other times.

Pic 4. Erosional Scarp in mixed Thalassia-Syringodium stand (patch, area) on Cobble Framework or Cobble-Sand substrate,  Note coarse rubble, including old rhodoliths on scarp face.

Pic 5. Erosional Scarp in mixed Thalassia-Syringodium stand (patch, area), on Predominantly Sand substrate.

Pic 6. Syringodium growing into blowout in area of seagrass/Avrainvillea spp. on Cobble Framework substrate.

Pic 7. Patch of mixed Thalassia-Syringodium with excessive growth of flashy algal epiphytes; it was a fairly restricted area, ‘wondered at the time if it was related to intrusions of nutrient rich groundwater; profiles of chloride in interstitial water (1969) indicated such intrusions in some stands.

Pic 8. Another pic in a patch of mixed Thalassia-Syringodium with excessive growth of flashy algal epiphytes

Pic 9. Image illustrates the more typical level of epiphytes on T.testudinum leaves. Whitish material is melobesoid epiphytes which are significant producers of find carbonate sediment

Fig 10. Another pic illustrating the more typical level of epiphytes on T.testudinum leaves

Fig. 11. Sparse Thalassia on Cobble Framework substrate; fine specimen of Porites furcata

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