Observations by raewyna

A north-easterly weather event. There has been a lot of sand pushed up since the last time I was there but the current NE had almost no washup. A very few common shells and a couple of clumps of seaweed.

My best guess. They are on the sand in the tide pools at the rocks on the way out to the island. Usually quite a few but they sit individually rather than together.

They are small and so well camouflaged they are hard to see well. I have tried (and always failed) to get some decent photos over a number of trips. These are the best yet, but still very unclear. I'm thinking I might have to catch some into a jar next time I'm there.

From the same rockpool as https://inaturalist.nz/observations/195999850.

On this day there were still plenty of bluefish, and there were also a couple of parore hiding among the rocks. They would shoot out for a look then go back into hiding. I had to set the camera going and move away to get the photos.

I also notice that what looks like a spotty has gone past in one of these photos. I did see it but this was the only photo - not good enough for an observation of its own.

A small school of half-size fish in the deeper part of the lagoon where there will be more freshwater than in the shallows where the larger schools of juvenile fish predominate.

These are deeper-bodied than the smaller fish seen in the shallows.

(Edited to fix typo)

Photos from above water with the DSLR. The fish all crowded around the GoPros and were too close to the lenses to get any photos in the shallows out in the sun. I did get some GoPro photos nearer the rocks - uploaded separately.

This is from under the rocks that lead out to the island, the same location as https://inaturalist.nz/observations/196641252 but a different day. This time there was a school of juvenile bluefish present along with the other fish that are usually there.