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.

River significantly backed up by sandbar, bridgeworks may also be having an impact

This is our first time using the new photopoint next to the steps to the beach due to the bridge construction. There is a lot of water in the estuary and its very high upstream of the bridge. The high water level is due to tidal influence in previous days.

The photo point site was from the beach access - our usual site was unavailable, enclosed by security fences for the new bridge installation works.