On Friday, July 13 my summer school headed out to Seymuor Marine Center Tide Pools and Natural Bridges for a field trip. We went on a school bus! We also made our own backpacks! It was a one-hour drive so you had to be patient. At first, we went to the aquarium. There was a touch pool! We touched a Tiger Shark! They are harmless to people. They are hairy. I saw a King Crab too! It was about 1 foot wide and long! We saw krill, fish, tiny jellyfish, Blue whale skeleton, otter fur, and souvenirs. Outside the aquarium, there was a beautiful sight of the Pacific Ocean. We spotted dolphins and (mabye porpoises.)
Next, we went to Tide Pools and Natural Bridges. We climbed up a cliff and went downhill to a beach. Next to the beach there was a rocky shore where the tide pools were. I held a hermit crab. That reminded me of the day I held a crab at a reverse tide at Half Moon Bay. I scratched my knee sometimes. We saw rock crabs, barnacles, sea urchins, star fish, and clams. Do you know how tide pools are formed? This is how: When the moon is full, the waves are very high. They go over the rocks. They fill holes in the rock with water and living things move in the water. That's how Tide Pools are made. We went to the beach. I got my shoes dirty with water and dirt.
Then we went hiking on two trails. The first was to another beach and the second was to a scenery. In the scenery there was a beautiful lake with a tiny island in it. There was a family of ducks, a harron, turtle, some fish, and a beautiful white swan. It followed us because people usually feed it bread and it thinks that we have bread to feed. The harron was on the tiny island fluffing its feathers. The fish may have been huge! Its dorsal fin was out of the water like a shark! It was too big for the swan to eat. I saw another group of ducks, a male, female and two ducklings. The ducklings looked ready to fly, make a family and make a home. I think turtles were hiding behind rocks, because I never saw them.
This was a fun field trip I'll never forget!
