The recent rainfall and strong high tides have exposed the rocks on the river channel as it exits the estuary to the sea. The high tides have been causing a lot of erosion to the western (Great Ocean Road side) riverbank  

Please add Erina  Officer  and   Roy Moriarty  as volunteers 

They both assisted with the data collection 

Please add Jennifer Wood- she is a new volunteer 

We took an extra photo at compass reading of 110, as suggested on photoguide sheet  -attached.

The river channel continues to travel south, so I have taken extra photos to show its course. Lots of erosion to the west of the channel.

Elsa and Erina also present.

Still lots of algae in estuary upstream of bridge - see photos 5 and 6

Immediately after heavy rain shower

We had new volunteers join us today- Erina Officer, Elsa Mahlstedt and Fran Berry. We have changed our monitoring day to Saturday and welcomed back Mary Eckhardt who did observations a few years ago. The path of the river takes a wider route across the beach so an extra photo has been taken to show that. Also a photo of the water gauge which is quite slimy and a bit hard to read, there's a lot of algae in the river, it has been warm with little rainfall in January.

Photo of water level gauge attached to show visual impact of construction of new Wye River bridge.

Water level below depth gauge.

Water level; the water gauge was covered with sand possibly due to the bridge renewal works. see photo

Water level below depth gauge.  River diverted under bridge to accommodate major works replacing Great Ocean Road Wye River bridge.. 

Very high tides for the last few days have caused much more sea water into the upper sections of the estuary upstream of the bridge.

Tidal influence - high tide coming into the estuary.

Water level below depth gauge.