Sand Bars are AMAZING!

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OMG! OMG! OMG! All my dreams have come true! The stars have all aligned! We got to go to the BACK SIDE of the Rock three mornings in a row!!! It is was absolutely amazing! There was a -1.7 and -1.9 tide, a sand bar connecting the first needle and the Rock, plus the surf was small! There was creatures to discover everywhere you turned!
Lets just make a list off the things:

  • SOO many Sea Stars, including Ocre, Six-rayed, and Red Brittle
  • SOOO many Chitons (Leatherback, Mossy, and Lined)
  • Skeleton Shrimp
  • Lemon, Opalescent, Janolus, Rustanga, Frosted  Nudibranchs
  • Olive Snails and their maze of paths
  • Sea Urchins
  • Decorator, Red Rock Crabs
  • Sea Anenomes
  • Muscles
  • Barnacles
I definitely missed some of the things people found, it was impossible to see everything, but something so special. There was two moments that stood out to me. The first one was all of sudden I turned around and realized I was not surrounded by tourists. All of the people who got up early to come out were locals, who love the ocean and understood how special it was to be on the backside of the Rock. The second was a different day when one of our interpreters-Kari- was standing at the base of the first needle looking at the Common Murre colony looking for chicks, when an adult Common Murre dive bombed her. It was really close to colliding straight into her. It was terrifying and hilarious at the same time. All of us had so much fun exploring and nerding out back there!
















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  1. Kim Rose AdamsAugust 1, 2017 at 9:13 PM

    This is amazing! I want to wait for the next negative tide! As a photographer, I was lucky to experience low tide on the Willapa Bay in May. Such beauty!

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