Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Sunday afternoon..

We strolled along the beach at Discovery Park for some exploring. The tide was really low and under every rock we lifted was a treasure. The beach was literally ALIVE...we found yellow, brown and purple sea stars, anemones, baby sea urchins, crabs, tube worms, clams, mussels, all kinds of marine snails, and tons of other creatures we couldn't identify.


I was surprised at how involved Hazel was . She wanted to touch everything and study every creature. She was WAY into it....a future beach naturalist maybe?? Purple sea star and sea worms. The worms were really cool under water, they come out with these really colorful plumes that sway with the current.a whole colony of anemones, u really have to watch where u step..they are everywhere!


4 comments:

Molly said...

cool. and great photos:)

i think we might need to return to that beach in mid-july!!

Laura Hunter said...

oh my gosh. that is way cool! I had no idea you could find all that stuff on a beach! that looked way fun! love ya and miss you guys!

Natalie Bernhisel-Robinson said...

Wonderful photos! I love tide pooling, we have to go when we come visit!

amanda james said...

you guys look straight out of a jcrew modeling catalog. your family is sooo perfect. hazel is a money maker!