February 11,2021 Point Fermin

Chris and I stopped at Point Fermin to explore the tide pools. He is on a quest to find different species of nudibranchs. I obviously would like to find some too. Unfortunately we didn’t find anything new but did see a couple of McDonald’s dorids which seem to be the most common nudibranch here. We had the tide pools mostly to ourselves which was good. It has become really difficult to find tide pools with out many people and the problem is not exclusive to our area. If you haven’t read her post in the Forim, you might want to see this along with links to a couple of articles about problems in the Bay Area with rampant collecting: https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/46363-obscuring-my-tidepool-observations-in-sf-bay-area-counties#activity_comment_7b93f9fa-26e8-4e35-825d-415f8b534f9b. It is sad that those of us trying to document and save nature are inadvertently making it easier for bad actors to decimate the environment,

On a happier note, I wanted to share what I think was my best find of the day and a family of creatures totally new to me...sea pills. I found this really cute little guy on some surfgrass and thought I’d share it as I haven’t seen any others like it in the area. I also thought these colorful worms were very cool. Finding and learning about new wildlife is such a rewarding part of inaturalist as well as Inspirational. I am so in awe of all that is around us and am sad that I couldn’t have started doing this 30 years ago as there just isn’t enough time to see and discover everything I want.

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