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This is definitely an original local provenance wild stock plant which has been there since my youth (ie 5+ decades,as I'm now 65. In my youth I never saw any true local native seedlings being planted in the South Dunes, only a few interstate and overseas species planted ad hoc by adjacent landowners, eg Victorian Coastal Teatree, Pincushion Hakea, Golden Wreath Wattle, Geraniums, Century Plant, Norfolk Island Pine, and sundry South African cacti,mostly now invasive).
FTR There are now quite a few very recently planted tubestock specimens of Bursaria spinosa, probably/hopefully grown from local provenance seed, along the same rear section of the South Dunes.

This is a living hammer oyster which is being used by the purple urchin as a form of defense against predators. (I've commented on this *behavior by purple urchins at some length in earlier submissions using 'Purple Urchin' as the header species)
Via snorkel in depth ~3-4 m.
*[I'm not sure if I included anything about whether this is symbiotic.Perhaps the live bivalves benefit as filter feeders by being higher in the water column, and/or gain some protection from their own predators through being so close to the urchin's formidable array of spines?]

Near lighthouse.
In image 3 (included for perspective and to show that there are several such shrubs) it is the upper intertidal shrub nearest to centre.
(Evidence of anthropogenic rising sea levels??)

This specimen was found on Acacia burkittii which is one of its natural adult host plants, but was photographed on the leaf of a Eucalyptus sp. The location represents the first record of this species in New South Wales, and is an easterly geospatial range extension.

Small drab jewel beetle which at first looked like a click beetle with spots. Found intact and alive but about to be fully trapped in spider silk near a night light. Submitted to SAM Entomology Dept.
Tape measure is in INCHES.(all I could find at time).