Friday, July 10, 2009

We Heart Seahurst Park

Seahurst normally looks something like this


I've been there at high tide, too, when the water went all the way to those rocks by concrete wall and no sand was visible at all.
But during the minus tide, the lowest tide of the year, Seahurst looked like this

So we trekked through this (to Jane's chagrin)


to check out all of this

sea star

not pictured: poor dead crabs of all sizes, sea cucumbers, and
geoducks.


sun star: a rare treat, the naturalist said.

Then we played on this


Before hiking back to pick up our stroller (which held Grey's shoes, incidentally), then hiking back up the hill to the mini. It was a lot of walking, but worth it--this was one of my favorite days ever in Seattle.

3 comments:

Lindsey said...

Wow, how fun! That sun star is amazing. Thanks for sharing these :)

Cluff Chronicles said...

Hey Elder Singley,
It is great to see how your family is doing. Hard to believe you have a family of your own already, how time flies! I hope you are doing good. It looks like everything is going well for you.
Nicole Cluff (I don't know why it switched to Emily's name on my account.)

Katie Tyler said...

On A Happy Note...
My sister is a Volunteer Beach Naturalist (is that a fancy name for geek?) and we were at Seahurst when she volunteered there- and was answering questions. One girl was concerned about all of the "sad, dead crabs" and it turns out that those are not sad dead crabs afterall! They are actually just the shedding of the crab when he gets too big for his home! So he "molts" or is it "molten"? anyways- I am not the geek- so I don't know everything, but we can all sleep better knowing that Seahurst is not filled with chemicals or oil killing our crabs- they are growing and moving on!
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