After lecture and lunch I went to my room and slept for basically a million years until dinner. Which felt GREAT. After dinner we went on an adventure to a nearby beach. Travelling to it was fun - you had to climb down a pretty steep hill, using roots as steps, then through a tunnel, then repel down the side of a steep incline to get to it. I got some good pictures of zonation and other phenomena, and had a great time with the gang here!
This is an estuary on the way to the beach. To the right is a small waterfall (not shown), to the left on the bottom are a bunch of pools that it runs into, and on the top you can see the ocean, which also flows into the pools.
These pictures are actually in reverse order, so Paris was climbing up from the beach to the tunnel.
The rope - I felt like Indiana Jones
My best picture of zonation striping on this beach.
Limpets/barnacles hunkered down in holes.
My best picture - feeding acorn barnacles. The black things coming from the shells are their cirri - modified feet used for feeding.
Limpets in a crevasse - they do this to be where there's more water, and where it's easier to retain the water they have.
A surge channel - this is where the feeding barnacles were hanging out. This is it full of water...
And here it is when the water would recede. Kelli and Sam were trying to get a good picture of the barnacles, but kept having to jump back to save their cameras. I didn't manage to get some of their more comical leaps, but you get the idea.
More crowding into a hole
A closer view of zonation
Barnacles hiding between rocks - also a spider that I didn't notice when I was taking the picture.
The tunnel! It vaguely reminded me of the Twin Tunnels in Mosier, but not quite as nice.
A Black Oystercatcher - Dr. B's favorite bird. 
You're really doing marine biology stuff! That's exciting! I don't know if I've ever seen a real live tide pool, or really anything more than dead sand dollars and sand fleas. So that's awesome.
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