The Seattle Aquarium provided some Beach Naturalists to answer questions and help people find the sea creatures. They were very helpful and the kids loved learning about the sea life.
We saw clams, heart cockles, blue mussels, barnacles and other rock dwelling creatures, periwinkles, dungeness crabs, hermid crabs, shore crabs, purple sea stars, mottle stars, sunflower stars, red sea cucumbers, tidepool sculpin, anemones, and lots of different types of seaweed. I think the highlight for me though was a Moonsnail that was laying an egg collar. The Naturalists had never even seen on before that was not at the aquarium (they had seen the snails and the egg collars but not one that was in the process of making one during low tide). It was very cool. I did not take a picture but you can see one here (page down a bit).
Here are some pictures from today (click for larger if you wish):
Purple Sea Star and Anemone
Dungeness Crab
Purple Sea Star
Jax Finds Red Sea Cucumbers
Kids in Tidepool
Sand Castle
Then this evening, Stephen took the kids swimming at the club while I worked out. A fun-filled, action-packed day.
How will we top this?!
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