Photo of a cliff in the Hayamakatea on the drive back down from the top of Mungai.

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Tilly and Emily up in the spiky land.

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photographs from the second cliff looking down at the slope and see linear maybe beds sort of tilting away and then an open notch behind a tree and I wonder if maybe that's a paleo notch.

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Suddenly, right off of the high cliff, when you hit the base, you're in a ton of very obvious coral. Growth position, really dense, all kinds of different species, like suddenly in a very active leaf.

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Three photographs from within essentially a notch or sort of almost looks like a paleo cave with a tidal notch in it. A few photographs of imbricated coarse sediments that kind of fill this groove. Curious if maybe these are ancient, so these are the cobbles forming during 5E up against this cliff or if it's modern soil, essentially cyclones are coming through and filling and eroding through this channel. The third photo shows this sort of light blue light gray pinnacles at the mouth of this groove and those are the dense corals that I previously photographed. A final photo after this note will be of the part of the groove that looks like it may be a paleo notch.

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photograph looking down a paleo groove in this coral reef where you can really nicely see the encrusters sort of growing vertically along the walls of this paleo groove.

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collected of parodies from the groove that I previously photographed. For now we're calling it sample 6 3 sample 1 two pieces.

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Two photographs of parades. One is encrusting and growing along a groove. The other sort of makes up the mound on the edge of the groove. In the groove itself, there's more of these sort of rounded cobbles like the clasts that I saw sort of up the larger cave or groove earlier today.

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Three photographs from probably standing in a hole on a reef. We have the gravel serve at our feet. Large rounded cobbles made of corals and shells and other carbonate pieces cemented together. At eye level and higher along the walls there are encrusting varieties and branching corals. Maybe even some burrows it's hard to tell if it's coral or burrows from here. Take another photo in a minute.

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photograph of a notch shaped feature but so I see more and more of this and think about the elevation context it really seems like these might be caves that are collapsing today and flushing out or some kind of ancient channel that has this overhang for some reason this flowstone along it and there's not much flow in other places and as coral in the walls and above it so if it is a cave it's got to be younger than the corals I guess.

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It's really challenging to work out the relationship between the plane that the road is along and the second cliff. We've been walking along the front. We find what looks like pretty intact, deep reef right at the front of the cliff. As we approach the cliffs, there's no obvious, notching or contacts, even like, constructional terraces, caves, beach sediment. It just kind of looks like a slumped pile. It just took a few photos of the general landscape. Still gonna walk a bit and look for more. But I'm starting to wonder if it's possible that the reef we're actually walking in here at the base is just a deeper part of the sea level that's associated with the second cliff. And the cliff itself is the front slope of that engine environment. Sandy or not, there's no less big holes in there. And it's sitting on top of FID. There's not obvious that the corals themselves, the samples are super old and weathered. And it kind of seemed like the FID samples closer to the cliff one.

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Just took a photograph of what in the distance looks like it might be a notch. We'll try to get closer and check it out.

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Two photos showing the perspective from this point where the pseudo notch was. There's definitely a second bench, it's not very wide. It's what we've been walking through and it's been sort of patchy along the second cliff face. It's high, it's a coral reef with dolleys and tons of framework. It's really suggestive of something in between seven and eleven. Maybe it's just a low coral garden during stage eleven. This bay is a U.N. flat.

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Some photographs showing really the three layers here. There's a coral reef at the bottom. Some vertical walls and a higher unit that seems mostly heavily recrystallized. Back reef microbial flat has a few coral pieces here and there but it's certainly not 100% coral like what I'm standing in. And then in the far distance is the top of this probably stage 11 the second high cliff.

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large tridacta in the flat at the top of cliff one.

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The first cliff comes to the coastline. It becomes richer and richer in coral density and starts to develop these Rivulets or little gullies running out to the sea.

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photograph of me standing on probably the 5e reef flat the second high cliff is in the distance and in the middle ground there's sort of a up to eye level maybe a little taller than me intermediate reef that's one we're going to survey and try and figure out its origin.

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Just photographed the coral that makes up most of the spines of the spurs here along the cliff, the first type cliff.

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The photograph of Roger taking a GPS point in the low that sort of sits between these diamond-shaped intermediate highs. There's a lot of coral low down where Roger is. Emilia and I are going to poke around further to see if that trend continues. There's some coral higher up. Maybe it's along the walls. Maybe it's on top. It's a little hard to tell. The high features are a bit more beat up than what's in the lower parts.

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The more we look at these higher features in the sort of mid-sea level stand, as I've been calling it, the more coral we see. Seems very likely that these are actually patch reefs themselves and the channels are just channels running between the reef. Maybe because we see less big corals at the top, these were either exposed briefly as sea level is falling or they grew up to sea level. It would be nice to see some kind of micro at all right at the top, but I think it's just too weathered for that to be realistic.

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Emily pointed out that nearly 90% of the coral on these high patches is the upward branching delicate, probably a crop-ra. It's really remarkable that it's almost the only species we see out here until you get into the lows. What was that?

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Two photos of HS113 sample eye. Growth position coral near one of the GCPs. The one that was low in the back towards the second high cliff. Preservation seems pretty good. The outer surface is not great, but no infill, not sparkly at all.

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HS113 sample I.

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