I am glad to have been alive and well enough to visit all of the different intertidal zones. We started out in the sandy intertidal, then the rocky intertidal, and ended with the mudflats today. Often we would find the same species in different locations. We found sun stars and orange sea stars in both the sandy intertidal and rocky intertidal. We found the fire sponge in all 3 intertidal zones, the largest quantity of that species I found to be in the mudflats.
There were octopi and brittle stars, barnacles attached to shells or rocks, types of brown algae, blue crabs, and tons of hermit crabs that we saw in all 3 as well.
Different types of intertidal could be so very different but have similar creatures in every location.
Even so there were some more specific to certain areas like the Fiddler crabs we found in the mudflats and the Goby or other fish that relied on tide pools of the sandy intertidal.
Where we are at right now in the mudflats would be about 6 feet deep in water when at high tide. The shore is so far away at this point, it can barely be seen in this photo.
Katy Consoer
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