Marine Biology Field Study
Golden Gardens - May 20, 2004

Hi, my name is Molly. I'm the one behind all of these pictures. Fear me! I am almighty!

On the way to the beach, we ran into a small wetland area. There were some Canadian geese and some ducks in here, so I decided to take a few shots. That white thing in the picture looks kind of like a waterfall, but it's actually a dead tree. Do not be fooled.

These cuties were crowding around below me so I decided to take a picture of them.

Merely some shots of the bee-yoo-tiful beach. It's at the lowest tide at -.4 so we had plenty of things to explore.

Two images of barnacles. The second is particularly awesome because it's a clear example of a competition for space. The black circle in the middle is the actual rock. The brown and white creature is a slug or snail, I'm assuming, defending what little room it's got left. The rest of the area is polluted with barnacles and moss.

Many different starfish. I like the third from the bottom; if you look closely, you can see a white dotted star on his top. We didn't put the rocks on the last one; the little white dots on the bottom are his feeler/feet things and they're stuck to the rocks. That's how they can plant themselves virtually anywhere.

This is... an echinoderm, that's all I know. I forgot the name.

This is the echinoderm's eggs.

A variety of similar eggs. Wow, that was an oxymoron... anyway. I particularly enjoy the last picture. It reminds me of Thanksgiving or some harvest season festival.

This came out bad because I couldn't see very well out of the screen on my camera due to the light. This is a dead jellyfish. There were many of these littering the beach; from a distance they looked like bubbles of jelly water. That's basically what they are though, being comprised of about 95% water...

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