Great report Matt
cheers for that, sounds like an excellent time.
I had a few looks through what I call 'fools gold' conditions - every one else calls them suckerholes in the clouds
on sat morn AM 6th local time - it looked like it was gonna clear and get better early on - but it was just a tease as far as the comet(s) was concerned anyway.
I occasionally went out from 2 am till 4am in outer suburban backyard - at times it was 50% clear of cloud overhead mostly - for 5-10 min at a time, as it was freezing cold.
The only meteor I saw was, what we used to call a Sagittarid (apparently mistakingly? some confusion here as the radiants are quite near each other and large[?]) but is actually is called an Antihelion (a year long active sporadic meteor radiant that moves position along the ecliptic throughout year), and they are usually very nice and this candidate for an Antehelion was no exception.
For sat just gone morning, in the hours nearest dawn I read we should expect around 8 (Apex's source) sporadic meteors an hour, 3 Antihelion's an hour, from a site such as you guys experienced - and if I divide 75 (total viewed averaged) by 3.5 hours i get 21.4 meteors per hour, of which at least a possible 11 are not ETA's.
Obviously the counts could be skewed towards certain hours where the bulk was counted? increasing the count for the best/peak hour. But my experiences with shower in recent years (last 5 years i think from memory) would concur very closely with your counts averaged, and accounting for your superb ultimate dark location.
My point is, this shower is sometimes plugged as still capable of regularly producing a healthy 60 ZHR at max and being the only major southern shower. And even taking into account what ZHR means, should still do a lot better than I have seen, and more like what I used to see, up until I think 2001 perhaps (at least 40-50 ETA's an hour minimum.) - I frequently did days either side of max's in the first 5 years, as I used to with a lot of showers.
So when is everyone going to admit that the ETA's have had it?
I'm not saying that it isnt still enjoyable to go out and to spend time observing meteors - coz it is an excellent thing to do any old time - not trying to rain on any parades here, just getting confused as to why its still frequently plugged as THE southern performer - the Geminid's in dec are easily the most reliable and solid consistant performer shower of all the showers, viewed from my latitude here, way better than the Eta aquarid's now.
, finally after 3 mornings of cloud and bad luck I finally woke to clear skies at 5am this morning and saw my first Eta's. A couple of nice trains which were very luminous green in color which were cool as I have not seen that before. Managed to "just" capture one on the camera but the rest were not showing as I should have bummped the ISO. Pic to follow when I finally get home from work 2morrow. 
