3 jul 2008
mud, mud, mud... rocks!
Today i went invertebrate-gathering with Zach. We went to three places: the first was very, very muddy and had lots of clams (mostly manella, but some of his purple varnish), some polychaete worms (lots of bright orange ones and one weird, huge one), and some little crabs. The second was much less muddy (because it was all rocky) and had less clams (but it was high tide by the time we got there so they might still be there), but some anemones and these really cool jointed-shell things that i don't remember the name of. The third was all sandy, a spit of sand by Hope (!) Island, and had a really impressive amount of crabs. Big crabs, little crabs, crabs in piles, crabs all by themselves. It was craziness, crabtastic craziness. (There were children there too, and i really wanted to give some of them crabs just so i could tell that story... but i didn't, sad!) His clams were there too, and impressive sized seaweed, and a stray dog, but those last two things aren't invertebrates, so i guess it doesn't count.
Then we went to Deception Pass (impressive rocks! yay!) and Anacortes, which is cute (in a bit of kitshy small town way, plywood cut-outs and everything), and decided to search for yet more inverts on the marina there... which we found: anemones, mussels, orange stuff (name? forgotten), and limpets. And we saw a $949,000 boat for sale, and decided not to get it....
Then i came home and painstakingly solved our internet crisis. See?
i'm tired... i walked a lot, and at the first (muddy, muddy) place lost a boot (in the frickin' indescribably gross mud) and discovered i'm less intrepid than i thought (which wasn't much, really) and waited out the rain smoking in a CCC cabin thing. But then i looked at rocks, so it's all okay.
Fire Danger: Low (mists from the trees in the background) ¶ 23:54
Today i went invertebrate-gathering with Zach. We went to three places: the first was very, very muddy and had lots of clams (mostly manella, but some of his purple varnish), some polychaete worms (lots of bright orange ones and one weird, huge one), and some little crabs. The second was much less muddy (because it was all rocky) and had less clams (but it was high tide by the time we got there so they might still be there), but some anemones and these really cool jointed-shell things that i don't remember the name of. The third was all sandy, a spit of sand by Hope (!) Island, and had a really impressive amount of crabs. Big crabs, little crabs, crabs in piles, crabs all by themselves. It was craziness, crabtastic craziness. (There were children there too, and i really wanted to give some of them crabs just so i could tell that story... but i didn't, sad!) His clams were there too, and impressive sized seaweed, and a stray dog, but those last two things aren't invertebrates, so i guess it doesn't count.
Then we went to Deception Pass (impressive rocks! yay!) and Anacortes, which is cute (in a bit of kitshy small town way, plywood cut-outs and everything), and decided to search for yet more inverts on the marina there... which we found: anemones, mussels, orange stuff (name? forgotten), and limpets. And we saw a $949,000 boat for sale, and decided not to get it....
Then i came home and painstakingly solved our internet crisis. See?
i'm tired... i walked a lot, and at the first (muddy, muddy) place lost a boot (in the frickin' indescribably gross mud) and discovered i'm less intrepid than i thought (which wasn't much, really) and waited out the rain smoking in a CCC cabin thing. But then i looked at rocks, so it's all okay.
Fire Danger: Low (mists from the trees in the background) ¶ 23:54
