Sunday we packed up and headed to the Olympic Peninsula to camp at the Salt Creek Recreation Area (about 20 minutes from Port Angeles). We have two beautiful spots surrounded by trees with a view of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. I can hear the waves crashing on the rocks below us.
(sorry it's so dark- I don't have time to fiddle with it)We went out on Monday to look at tide pools. There's a long, rocky strip that was very hard to get to and very hard to cross being covered with loose rocks and millions of mussels. It had a few shallow tide pools that weren't very good until we got to the very end of the point. There we saw starfish, anenomes, purple and red sea urchins, little fish, all sorts of crabs and something we'd never heard of- chitons.
A lady was all excited that she found a gumboot chiton, which is this oval shaped reddish thing with a big foot and a mouth on the bottom.
After that we found regular chitons, which are covered with armor-like plates.
We then walked to the beach and the girls had fun in the sand.
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