An oyster farmer gazes in awe at the dense colonisation of a suite of reef forming species associating with Sydney rock oysters on the internal surfaces of a 3 dimensional spat settlement module in Pumicestone Passage. The prolific growth on the experimental module confirms without doubt that restoration of lost shellfish reefs is feasible in this degraded estuary. **Paper outlining the results - Diggles BK (2017). Annual pattern of settlement of Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) spat in Pumicestone Passage, Moreton Bay. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 122: 17-33 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322465083_Annual_pattern_of_settlement_of_Sydney_rock_oyster_Saccostrea_glomerata_spat_in_Pumicestone_Passage_Moreton_Bay ** Supplementary material http://digsfish.com/roysocsupplementary.pdf