Summer Adventures Day 5; Tuesday June 11th; Pleasure Point with Palo

With coffees in hand we headed out to Pleasure Point Beach.  The closer we got to the beach the more Palo cried with anticipation!  Even at 6am the beach was fairly busy with surfers, dog walkers, runners, and beach-goers like ourselves.  We discovered a record number of 8 Appleseed Erato snails; a beautiful, smooth light burgundy, cowry-like snail; one of our favorites.  Palo entertained himself by tearing the legs off numerous crabs washed up on the beach including one very large spider crab (Sheep Crab; Loxorhychus).

Pleasure Point Beach looking south

Pleasure Point Beach looking north

Nuttal's Cockle (Clinocardium nuttallii)

Indented Macoma (Macoma indentata)

Kelp Scallop (Leptopecten latiauratus)

Leaf Barnies (Polyceps polymerus very delicious too!),  with California mussels (Mytilus californianus), and Sand Castle Worm tubes (Phragmatopoma californica)

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