We had a great day on the flats this weekend. The kids and I walked way out with the low tide and came across some pretty cool things. The best thing we found was what's called an "egg mop." It's a pile of squid eggs that looks like a big jelly mop (sans handle). The one we found was about 3 feet across and a foot wide. You could actually see the tiny little squids inside the eggs flipping and wiggling around. They were transparent and had two tiny black eyes. Their bodies had the identical shape of the full grown ones, only maybe a bit squatter than the adults. I'll find a picture... I didn't have my camera out there with me.
We also found a giant quahog (which we couldn't bring home because you can only shelfish on Thursday's and Sundays.) We found big hermit crabs and some old, cranky horseshoe crabs. Max got pinched by a swimming crab and we found a whole bunch of moon snails, which the kids let crawl all around thier arms. We were looking for pipette fish, but never found any. Last year at this time they were everywhere.
We had a great day on the flats this weekend. The kids and I walked way out with the low tide and came across some pretty cool things. The best thing we found was what's called an "egg mop." It's a pile of squid eggs that looks like a big jelly mop (sans handle). The one we found was about 3 feet across and a foot wide. You could actually see the tiny little squids inside the eggs flipping and wiggling around. They were transparent and had two tiny black eyes. Their bodies had the identical shape of the full grown ones, only maybe a bit squatter than the adults. I'll find a picture... I didn't have my camera out there with me. 
We also found a giant quahog (which we couldn't bring home because you can only shelfish on Thursday's and Sundays.) We found big hermit crabs and some old, cranky horseshoe crabs. Max got pinched by a swimming crab and we found a whole bunch of moon snails, which the kids let crawl all around thier arms. We were looking for pipette fish, but never found any. Last year at this time they were everywhere.
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Mmm, squid ... remember the fried squid at the joint on the Gloucester end of Long Beach? good stuff, long walk,
PR is "personal record" meaning it's the best I've done on a course or at a distance ... this was a pr for the leadville 50k, but not a pr for the distance, 50k, which is 5:15 ... on a flat course in florida ...
say, when's the itch to visit Colorado going to bite you?
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