Tidal Pool and Beach Walking
Today was an interesting day, it was low tide during the middle of the day so I decided to check out tidal pools as Scott mentioned they could be quite neat. In fact I did find a lot of tidal pools but not much in them, I walked all the way out to the front of Lion Rock sat there for a while and looked at the ocean.... and realized the rocks were all moving. The "not much in them" thing I thought earlier was just my way of saying I didnt look hard enough the first time. Not only was there stuff in them there was a HUGE variety of creatures I've never seen before. The most exciting was seeing a pool filled with starfish of all shapes and sizes, as small as a fingernail and one the size of a basketball. There were clams and snails and mollusks and all sort of bivalves. Snails and crabs and little brine shrimp. Anemones of all different colors grabbing bits of food in the calm pools. Squishy things rock like things. Birds that looked like boobies or gannets but werent, ducks and seagulls and albatross. A dead seal which I thought at first was a suitcase until I got close enought to smell it.
Just so much diversity in such a small area and such a fragile ecosystem as well. Most ecosystems need a major event to distrupt every creature within it. Tidal pools however could be desimated by someone stepping in them, or a rock rolling into it. Even what makes the tidal pools possible a wave could crash down on it and wipe out everything inside. BUT they exist. Almost just to say yes its difficult, nearly impossible for this to be sustainable in any way but we're here and what happens happens. Living in the here and now
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