Puget Sound

We always see interesting creatures whenever we walk on the beach. Now, a new program from the University of Washington and the state department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking to enlist beach walkers in a community science project where they can help monitor biodiversity. The program is called NatureMapping and it's mission is to enlist the community and schools in monitoring the health of our beaches and contributing data to a state-managed biodiversity database. If you can get to a beach, you can help survey invertebrate species and intertidal marine fish. Two free facilitator…

It was a -1 tide on Sunday and great entertainment for people and birds. We got there about lunch time. We found two moonsnails. Lots of moonsnail egg cases. Some moonsnail food. Anenomes everywhere. And at the end, we had quit being crabby. And everything was clam.