Indian Point, St. Andrews, NB
This afternoon, we traveled to Indian Point on the edge of the peninsula of St Andrews in search of marine creatures left above water by the low tide. The common intertidal creatures included sea stars, green crabs and sea urchins. Some less common ones were the majestic dogwinkle snails, sand shrimps, scale worms, and brittle stars. There were also lots of different kinds of seaweed, such as knotted wrack and Irish moss.
The most important thing that we did today was using our senses to find the different animals. We also had to think like the creatures and look under rocks and moss to find our crabs and sea stars. All in all, we developed our skills at finding intertidal animals and learned to identify many different ones. We're all excited to go out tomorrow and have more adventures.
George Perlman and Jason Miller
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