When we were at the beach for SeaFest, we saw a booth manned by Friends of Semiahmoo Bay Society, which offers free guided beach walks. I went to the one at 1001steps in Ocean Park Monday as I have lived here 70 years and have never gone down the 1001 steps. Luckily it is only 236 steps but there were about 7 people going up and down 10 times for their exercise.
I learned so many things, I was astounded.
The first lesson was, NEVER roll rocks over. The marine life will rush away from where you are lifting it and you'll crush them.
LIFT
ROCKS straight up with 2 hands and put them back gently exactly where
they were. Creatures imprint themselves on their location and
always return there.
Our guide and I ended up in a letter to the Editor with our picture in the Peach Arch News.
The 'sea stars' ( not starfish we called them as they are not fish) were decimated about 5 years ago by a fungus in a large area around here, but they are coming back. So nice to see. The green is sea lettuce and we saw Japanese eel grass (which we've always called seaweed) thinner and darker than our very green eel-grass.
Here you see both colours of the eel-grass and the round brownish bunches are sea cauliflower.
This actually a prehistoric creature called something like Chiton.
Two trains came by and the eagles soared overhead. Beautiful day.
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