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| The beach at Crystal Cove. It's bizarre visiting a beach where people are actually laying on blankets in swimming suits. Does that ever happen on Washington beaches? Um, no. Never. |
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| The main reason we chose to visit Crystal Cove? The tide pools!!!! There were anemones, barnacles, hermit crabs, mussels, starfish, and all manner of oozes and slimes. I found a giant loose barnacle, which I thought was uninhabited, and snatched it up. Turns out, there was a live barnacle inside. It poked its beak at me, and I squealed and threw it back in the surf. That's how I roll. |
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| The sand and mudstone cliffs on Crystal Cove. I messed around with chunking off a few pieces of rock and splitting them layer by layer, but then a lizard startled me, and I thought I was going to get stung by a beach bee. So, investigation abandoned. |
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| The very bee! |
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| Catherine read Jaws on the beach. She told me not to take a picture of her face-- it was that kind of a day--but you can see a tiny bit in the lower right corner. Ha-ha! Your face in your face, Catherine! |
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| I found this intriguing collage among some beach debris. The white bit is actually a kelp bulb which has been hollowed out and bleached. |
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| A bit of colorful seaweed. This was everywhere: white and pink and green. |
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| Look at all these lovely layers. Monika and I examined them a bit while Catherine read Jaws and kept the ants away from her rellenitos. |
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