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Nice wading-trip to the beach - got my shore-ecosystem-fix for the season.
Saw mussels, barnacles, snails, hermit crabs, gulls, bladder-wrack. Someone walked by with a tin lid on which they were examining sand, water and young sea dollars. I prodded gently at a hermit crab who'd over-grown his shell, and he began pulling himself out...then lay, as if exhausted. Worried that I'd Stressed him to death, I introduced him to the entrance of a much larger shell, left him and it lying in a rock cleft, below the high-tide line. Hopefully none of the gulls noticed him and got him before he pulled himself together to crawl inside and set up house (or else go elswhere).
Saw mussels, barnacles, snails, hermit crabs, gulls, bladder-wrack. Someone walked by with a tin lid on which they were examining sand, water and young sea dollars. I prodded gently at a hermit crab who'd over-grown his shell, and he began pulling himself out...then lay, as if exhausted. Worried that I'd Stressed him to death, I introduced him to the entrance of a much larger shell, left him and it lying in a rock cleft, below the high-tide line. Hopefully none of the gulls noticed him and got him before he pulled himself together to crawl inside and set up house (or else go elswhere).
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