Thursday we went to Starwberry Hill to look for more inverts, of course. Strawberry Hill is at Cape Perpetua (and I want to know why it has that name). It was a pretty site, and very shallow so we weren’t in quite so much danger of getting attacked by waves.
We had to climb down and around this big rock outcropping to get to the rock benches (large flat outcroppings of rock) and the tide pools there. We were also on the lookout for agates, since there are a bunch at tha beach I guess. This time was pretty similar to the other collecting expedition at Boiler Bay. The tide pools were bigger here though. Another girl and I found a pretty cool annelid worm hiding in a mussel clump, and there were anemones everywhere. We also found some tube worms, which was so cool!
The rocks were dominated by mussels and barnacles; I felt bad walking on them because it felt like I was killing them all.
We found a couple new species we hadn’t collected yet, like the worm and some barnacles. A couple boys also found this little tiny nudibranch (Rostanga) living on a sponge and the teacher was excited about that. One guy accidentally fell into a tide pool. I didn’t see it but apparently he was walking into it trying to get a little closer to some stuff, and it got really deep all of a sudden. He literally vanished under the water, and he is over 6 feet tall! Pretty funny. He was a good sport about it.
So that was Strawberry Hill. Also a nice place, especially because waves aren’t as much of an issue!




