Choya Bay mud flats

Despite the barren wasteland look of this place, its filled with all different kinds of life. The part closest to the shore had an abundance of tiny snails, hermit crabs, fiddler crabs, and barnacles. The creatures in this zone were prepared for the dry conditions they deal with twice a day and were also pretty small.

As we walked further out the living things became easier to find, and they began to increase in size. We started to find bigger shells such as scallops the fishermen had left behind, along with oysters and mussels. As we found bigger puddles blue crabs were running around and not too happy to be picked up.

When we got to the channel that emptied into the sea we started to find sooooo many cool species! Sand dollars, and mirex shells, pigmy octopi...we found 2 of them! much bigger hermit crabs, a blue crab that had just molted and was still soft, and a bunch of decent sized really pretty shells to take home with us :)

unfortunately my shoulders are all toasty and pink from keeping my eyes glued to the ground