Lucky Bay is home to a variety of fish species, we left camp early so the tide was out making it easier to catch the fish. Dr Michael Hammer, from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory led the team down to the bay to collect some samples. We had Ana Hara and Jenelle Ritchie from the Western Australian Museum working with us as we cast out the net, walked it through the water and checked through the seagrass for a variety of fish species. We found lots of different species including flounder, magpie perch, flathead, long nose weedy whiting, pipe fish, flute fish, crested weed fish and hardy heads. The most exciting fish we found was the earspot snakeblenny, Ophiclinops hutchinsi, as it is only found at Lucky Bay.

Later that morning we went looking for freshwater mussels, Westralunia carteri, with Dr Michael Klunzinger, a mussel expert from Griffith University. We put on our waders and used our hands to the search through the mud, sand and stones at the bottom of the creek looking for these mussels. Dr Michael found a yabbie, we saw lots of yabbie claws on the banks of the creek but unfortunately no mussels.

After a quick lunch at base camp, we had time for one more adventure with Dr Michael Hammer and the fish team. Cleve, from BHP, drove us out along a red dirt track until we came across our location. We got into our waders again and started walking through the bush with our buckets and nets. Dr Michael showed me how to use the net while stomping on the side of the banks to scoop up any fish or yabbies hiding. We found three Galaxias maculatus, one was put back and two taken as specimens for further research.