laminaria

For our last field trip of invert we made our way out to lighthouse beach to cross the channel to get to the island. It was rather epic as I saw all of these very different intertidal communities based on where they were located and how intense of surf they see. We even saw a harbor seal pup stranded in a pool. I'm sure he was okay once the tide came back up.

There was an imense amount of diversity and color out there today, but what really did it for me was the kelp. yes yes I know kelp. But bull kelp is cool stuff and it usually is growing far off shore not in the intertidal. This kelp seems to be misplaced as some was growing in a corkscrew fashion. Either way I attempted at some photos with a lot of bad shots, and a few good ones. I've realized on a wet gray dark day you just have to go with blurry.