Compact: Mangroves at Cockle Creek

On the left is a fine specimen of mangrove, growing on the East bank of Cockle Creek. Mangroves have a very restricted range of habitat - between low and high tide waterlines, which can be a space as little as one metre wide.
A moment after this photograph was taken one of the creek's inhabitants, the magnificent bullet-headed Black Mullet, shot from the water in what can only be inadequately described as a graceful sunlit arc. Although this fleeting vision lasted for less than a second, the elusive creature once more fully earned its reputation as the springbock gazelle of the East coast's estuarine waterways.

Mangroves at Cockle Creek - (compact)