The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note of any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or flowers. All are worthy additions to the bucket. Please let us know what is going on around you in a comment. Include, as close as is comfortable for you, where you are located. Each note is a record that we can refer to in the future as we try to understand the patterns that are quietly unwinding around us. All right children we are going down to the beach to look at the pretty tide pools, let's see if we can find something fun. Billy, put down that rock. No Sally, you must leave your shoes on, these rocks can be sharp. Billy, THE ROCK, DOWN!
Tide pools were my first introduction to marine biology, I can't say I've learned much, but I still like tide pools. Sometimes I'll still turn over a rock. I know little creatures can be injured, and little fingers as well. Some vices are just too rewarding.
Red Sea anemones awaiting the turning of the tide
A couple of sculpins camouflaged in a few inches of sea water. The crater was the home of a horse barnacle, an arthropod. Billy, no rocks, you'll scare the fish, no, put it down.
The one above and the one below are very similar in appearance, the are probably 'tidepool sculpins' one of the species that 'Marine Life of the North Pacific' labels "seemingly identical" smooth head sculpins, roughback sculpin, fringed sculpin, scaleyhead sculpin and rosy lipped sculpins are also candidates, seemingly identical, don't you see.
This little fellow, though not very well focused, is the only one I could get that had his dorsal lure raised, the reddish pattern on the tip of the fin undulates like a tiny tasty fish. But, if you don't want to be seen, and photographed, don't move.
a hermit crab that needs a shave, and a bigger pair of pants.
Yes, he's underwater
Icky stuff
and a clown
Clams for lunch?
I would mention that it's fun to be a kid again, but to be one again, I would have to have stopped once.
What are you looking at?