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Hello. This week we took our dog on a family holiday down to the great ocean road, I figure any chance is a good one to go out looking for shrimp :) So I went for a wander up Smythe creek, I started from the side road car park near beach where the Creek flowed out into saltwater. The view of ocean from where I parked. The veiw looking inland. I had no equipment with me (not even gumboots, just an old pair of street shoes lol) the car said it was 9C haha. I just took a few bottle traps on line that I'd make quickly to see what was in the Creek. Though the Creek was totally inaccessible other then walking over large rocks or straight through water, I didn't have to walk far until typical rainforest vegetation became increasingly prevalent. I set my 2 bottle traps up using a dry dog kibble as bait in one and a prawn head in ther other, I did this on the way up the creek to check on my way back down. I mostly just scanned through the water with my eyes and occasionally lifting over a rock or 2. But I didn't find any shrimp or even shells/ fish bones. Nothing. But it was still a lovely veiw. The first signs of submersed vegetation, nothing was hiding in these. Some of the spots I stopped to eat a muesli bar and just appreciate the veiw. I did notice a large amount of brown slime with tiny oxygen bubbles covering most of the rocks in large part and of the creek, I also saw large populations of like dragonfly/ damselfly nymphs and other aquatic bugs, maybe this had something to do with the lack of aquatic fauna? I did find a fish trapped in a small rock pool, on the way back I decided to move some rocks so it could get back to the main river (There was no eggs on the rocks or anywhere in the pool, I thought maybe it wanted to be there?) But after I moved the first rock it swam away back into the main river happy as, I forgot to make a wish lol. This is as far as I walked, about 2-3hours maybe a few km I wasn't moving fast lol. Some beautiful native Bryophytes a metre or so from the creek. Horwort, Cyathophorum Bulbosum- (Quill moss) Achrophyllum dentatum, All in all I didn't find any shrimp or even aquatic ferns, but was a nice veiw. Good to be home though,