Comments | loonylupinlover: *SQUEE!*

loonylupinlover

SQUEE!

Feb 05, 2005 19:56

Just got back from my ecology class's field trip to the Yaquina Bay tide pools. Oh my God, they are so gorgeous. I guess I've never been to see real, natural tide pools before, but oh, maaaaan, they are so, so, so beautiful. Creatures (and plants) seen: mussels, clams, crabs, hermit crabs, shrimp, sea stars, sun stars, an octupus (in the WILD, ( Read more... )

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bsphil February 6 2005, 04:38:17 UTC

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loonylupinlover February 6 2005, 04:45:07 UTC

I really should.... :-D

loonylupinlover February 6 2005, 10:07:58 UTC

Ta-da!!!!! *points*

bsphil February 6 2005, 21:57:10 UTC

Very nice work! :D

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frodo_fanatic February 6 2005, 04:43:43 UTC

I miss the ocean. I used to play by the tidepools when I was little... aww, they're so purty, especially the urchin and the starfish. There's a place in my town where you can go to the wharf and see hundreds of them that size, though not always as colourful.

loonylupinlover February 6 2005, 04:46:03 UTC

Coolness! Alas... Portland has no tidepools (which is... duh, lol). *tear* I will have to go again, sometime when I can devote the whole day to it. :-D

flax February 6 2005, 04:49:12 UTC

HOLY CRAP THE OCEAN IS PRETTY.

Your photos came out beautifully, too. I'm very impressed, the colours are gorgeous.

loonylupinlover February 6 2005, 04:56:50 UTC

Yes it is!!! *WANTS*

Thank you! Well, I did have to lighten some of them up in Photoshop, and screw around with the levels a bit, but it wasn't much for them to be all shiny. :-D

fyreharper February 6 2005, 06:26:42 UTC

SOOO PRETTY! (soooo jealous! ;p)
and an octopus!
*much squee-age*

loonylupinlover February 6 2005, 10:08:17 UTC

Definitely made me a happy girl. XD

panther502002 February 6 2005, 06:41:11 UTC

Oh wow, you've never seen tide pools before? Some of my favorite memories are in Bandon, where my mom, sister, and I would walk along the beach in the morning and see the newly formed tide pools. I couldn't really name a whole lot of what I saw, but I always enjoyed seeing the creature that clung to the rocks with the dark outside, and kind of green center (I see a couple of them in your pictures).

loonylupinlover February 6 2005, 10:09:13 UTC

Yeah -- the beaches my family always went to when I was a kid were sandy ones so that we could go swimming and stuff. We just never came to tide pool beaches. But I will campaign for sure for the family to go there this summer....

Sea anenomes are what you're thinking of. :)