For a few minutes, I looked at the mud between and under yesterday's rocks. It's busy down there:
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| More stubby isopods, Gnorimosphaeroma oregonensis, and one large rockweed isopod, Idotea wosnesenskii. Names larger than the animals themselves. |
That mud is slippery! I went down on my back, had to roll over in the mud to find something to grab and pull myself up. No harm done (a bit of a bruised tailbone is all), but this next photo was taken quickly while I hurried, dripping mud, back to the car. I should have, will later, stopped to look more closely.
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| Little black, sharp protrusions on the surface of the mud turned out to be the tips of an under-mud colony of mussels. |
Watching it all, impassive:





