The Plateau

This is a dive in the middle of the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park. The plateau is a huge rocky platform in around the 16-meter range winding its way around the edge of the platform. This is the deepest water in Victoria, originally part of the river Yarra.

Critters at this site

Depths at the bottom of this area are between 40 meters and 100 meters. The slack water period here is short, hard to pick, and the currents are a little unpredictable.

Based on open observations nearbywithin ~5 km — likely to see, not necessarily confirmed at the site itself.

Warty Ear Shell

Haliotis rubra6 obs.

Biscuit Star

Tosia australis5 obs.

The Interwoven Purpura

Dicathais orbita2 obs.

Variegated limpet

Cellana tramoserica2 obs.

Svamp

Demospongiae1 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Australaria australasia1 obs.

Cleft-fronted Shore Crab

Guinusia chabrus1 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Cominella lineolata1 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Zafra1 obs.

Krebsdyr

Ovalipes australiensis1 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Turbonilla1 obs.

Western Pacific purple sea urchin

Heliocidaris erythrogramma1 obs.

Brown Fur Seal

Arctocephalus pusillus1 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Siphonariidae1 obs.

Australian Pheasant Or Painted Lady

Phasianella australis1 obs.

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Green-lip Abalone

Haliotis laevigata3 obs.

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Feather Star

Cenolia trichoptera2 obs.

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Tiny Hermit Crab

Micropagurus acantholepis1 obs.

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Lehmann's Top Shell

Prothalotia lehmanni1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Gabrielona nepeanensis1 obs.

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Hydroide

Gymnangium ascidioides1 obs.

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Musling

Neolepton1 obs.

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blacklip abalone

Haliotis rubra rubra1 obs.

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Børsteorm

Sabellariidae1 obs.