at this morning's 5:30 AM urchin class the class was treated with finding a beautiful octopus, in addition to lots and lots of urchin "Ryn and Ricardo were great! Fabulous early morning energy, very encouraging, and very knowledgeable. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!" join us for our one of urchin classes this summer: 5/31, 6/14, or 7/15
Spots still available in our next two urchin classes. The tides will be extremely low nearly -2 feet on the 17th! I would bet the farm on seeing that pacific red octopus again, a few red urchins, and lots of excellent seaweed species. The 31st is -1 which is still really amazing, things get good at -0.4
Pretty last minute but we still have open spots this weekend in our urchin foraging classes. It's an extremely low tide, over -1' both days! Tides this low are rare so you'll be able to see beings that are just as unique and magical
It's time to play, washed up industrial human waste or natural wonder of the sea!
By the wind sailors (Vellela vellela) are in the phylum Cnidaria along with jellyfish and corals known for their stinging cells (nematocysts or cnidocysts). Unlike jellyfish they're are not a single animal but a colony of hydroids.
Opalescent nudibranch (Hermissenda opalescens), just one section of rock and pool worth more than all the lives of thousands of billionaires, Chain bladder kelp (Stephanocystis osmundacea), Purple laver or "Nori" (Pyropia perforata), Sea Pork (Aplidium californicum), and potentially Northern Staghorn Bryozoan (Heteropora pacifica)? No you can't eat the Sea Pork, as far as I know.
Went to shell beach yesterday to pick up a few urchin to demonstrate safe handling for a video today. I meant to keep them all alive but sometimes they get damaged when you're prying them off of the rocks. Oh well, time for a snack
