” This coming Summer we expect the heat to drive the La Nina and produce something like four cyclonic climate events in the South Western Pacific Ocean” media sources warn.
” This coming summer we expect further bleaching and outbreaks of COTS and Drupella
‘Vampire’ snails” media sources warn.
Can we handle the truth ? Time to find out !
The CMM are determined to contribute to the Great Barrier Reef Census , the Eye on the Reef program and Reef Check monitoring by reporting and recording and posting our planned field trips for this summer.
Weather permitting
Trip One Dec 2020
Very early AM Depart Magnetic Island to fetch Keeper reef 32 Nm offshore to spend up to ten days in the reefs to the South of Magnetic Passage ….
Grub Reef , Knife, Fork and Spoon Reefs ; Cup and Saucer Reef to Centipede and Wheeler Reefs.
Trip 2 Jan 2021
Very early AM Depart Magnetic Island to fetch
Lodestone Reef and spend up to ten days in the reefs North of Magnetic Passage…
John Brewer , French , Hopkinsons and Braggs Reef , then Backnumbers , Westmoreland to Fore and Aft Reef. Roxburgh and the Kelso Reefs then Rib reef , Trunk and Bramble reefs.
Trip 3 Feb 2021 and 5 April 2021 will revisit and review the same itinery as Trip 1.
Trip 4 March 2021 and 6 May 2021 will revisit and review the same itinery as Trip 2.
