Magnolia Beach Memorial Day
Memorial Day dawned with a rosy pink sunrise......and a looming front of wet sky to the West. Magnolia beach just South of Discovery Park is a vast expanse of sand, with patches of small rocks covered with kelp and eelgrass beds. A few large rocks and high intertidal cobble provide additional habitat for animals needing hard attachment points. The collection of images below is a sample of animals, seaweed and sea grass commonly found at Magnolia Beach at low tide.....
Thanks to all the hardy folks that spent two hours of their holiday standing in the rain making Gretchen and me feel useful.
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| Moon Snail goes from one Sandy habitat to another. |
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| Helmet Crab |
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| Jackknife Clam |
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| Lacuna Snail with egg case |
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| Sculpin eggs on seaweed |
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| Flounder |
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| River Otter |
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| Juvenile Red Rock Crab |
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| Penpoint Gunnel |
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| Piddock Clam from clay |
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| Piddock clam burrow in clay |
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| Graceful Decorator Crab |
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| Bubble Shell snail and egg case |
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| Purple Sea Stars |
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| Tidepool Sculpin |
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| Bering Hermit Crab |
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| Crescent Gunnel |
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| Heart Cockle |
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| Northern Kelp Crab with eggs |
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| Rockweed Isopods |
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| Flounder |
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| Northern Clingfish |
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| Mottled Sea Star |
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| Mottled Sea Anemone |
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| Moon Snail |
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| Lined Chiton |
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| Hairy Hermit Crab |
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| Horse Clam siphon |
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| Northern Kelp Crab |
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| Geoduck siphon |
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| Great Blue Heron |
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| Frilled Whelks with egg cases |
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| Frilled Whelk egg cases |
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| False Jingle Shell ...open |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Mating Dungeness Crabs in Wireweed |
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| Piddock Clam Siphons |
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| Brooding Anemone |
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| Plumose Anemones |
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| Plumose Anemone |
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| Bull Kelp spore patch |
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| Eelgrass |
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| Fish eggs on Eelgrass |
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| Rockweek |
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| Rockweed |
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| Nori |
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| Sugar Kelp |
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| Sugar Kelp |
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| Wireweed - Sargassum |
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| Sitka Shrimp |
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| Eelgrass Isopods |
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| Thatched Barnacle |
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| Pill Bug Isopods |
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| Plumose Anemone |
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| Feather Duster Tube Worm |
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| Feather Duster worm out of tube |
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| Ribbon Worm |
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| Lacuna Snails on Eelgrass |
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| Burrowing Sea Cucumber |
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| Calcareous Tube Worms |
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| Calcareous Tube Worm |
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| Rockweed Isopods |
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| C-O Sole on Wireweed |
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| Black Clawed Crab on Sea Lettuce |
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| Barnacles and Limpets |
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| Black Clawed Crab female with eggs |
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| Sunflower Star |
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| Moon Snail egg case (sand collar) about 300,000 eggs |
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| Graceful Cancer Crab |
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| Aggregate Anemone |
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| Sea Pen |
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| Sea Pen Retracted |
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| Shore Crabs |
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| Geoduck siphon |
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| Leather Limpet |
