It would be very interesting if someone analysed water from several locations in Moreton Bay and compared the result with water from the Great Barrier Reef in similar coastal areas. In January I went by ferry to Russell Island and was not impressed by the visually obvious lack of water quality. The water was a murky pea soup green which had a presumably high level of algae and cyanobacteria. If the algae and cyanobacteria count is as high as I estimate it to be, they have a really serious problem with disolved nutrient load. The sediment load would also be high. If you remember, it is only a couple of years ago that there was a serious outbreak of 'Fire Weed' or Lyngbya majuscula to give it the botanical name. This cyanobacteria kills small fish and other marine organisms and will burn your skin on contact and can cause severe skin ulcers.

I don't see Botox Blight getting all anxious about Moreton Bay which is a damn sight worse than anywhere on the Barrier Reef. One would think she would clean up her own back yard first. Of course, the Brisbane River and all the other streams that drain the SE corner are pristine and have no sediment or nutrient loads. The huge sediment plume I saw from the air last week at the mouth of the Pine River and the Brisbane River must have just been a figment of my imagination.

Ha Ha Ha Trugger, or your clinically blind as the South East has not run off, sediment or anything dirty in their environment. That is why everytime they have a rainfall event, the tractors run up and down their beaches cleaning up for days on end!