Saturday, September 11, 2021

Low tide zone littles

 Just poking around at the base of rocks at the low tide line ...

Mussels (4 alive), barnacles, and a pair of flatworms, flowing like warm honey.

Mostly barnacles. Just because.

After the heat wave, when so many mussels died, exposed to unaccustomed high temperatures as they were, I am glad to see some still surviving. Down in the lower intertidal zone, an odour of rotting sea creatures is still noticeable, but not nearly as strong as it was back in July. But there were more empty mussel shells to be seen than there were live mussels.

A bit of everything: pink-tipped green anemones, red and green algae, barnacles, limpets, a fragment of sand dollar test, and empty mussel shells.

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Examinando lo que vive a la base de las rocas en la zona intramareal baja ...

  1. Mejillones (cuatro vivos), bálanos, y un par de gusanos planos, platelmintos. Estos fluyen como si fueran hechos de miel tibia.
  2. Una piedra cubierta de bálanos. Porque sí.
Después de la ola de calor, cuando murieron tantos mejillones, expuestos al temperaturas no acostumbradas durante las horas de la marea baja, ahora me dió gusto ver algunos mejillones vivos. En la zona baja intramareal esta semana, todavía persiste un olor a podrido, pero no es tan fuerte como estaba en julio. Pero sí, vi más conchas vacías de mejillones muertos que mejillones vivos.

Tercera foto: un poco de todo. Anémonas de puntas color de rosa, Anthopleura elegantissima, algas rojas y verdes, bálanos, lapas, un pedazo de concha de dólar de mar, y conchas vacías de mejillones.

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