Well, today was quite the interesting day. We went to Cholla Bay to check out the soft sediment intertidal and see all the different types of species that live there. There were thousands of snails all over the ground, including clams, blue crabs, and fiddler crabs. The crab on the top picture is a fiddler crab. they use that giant claw to wave around to attract mates but that is all their good for. something interesting about it is when for whatever reason he loses the big claw, the small claw grows to big a big claw and what was originally the big claw grows to be the small claw that they use to eat, and the process continues. The bottom picture crab is a blue crab and its the crab that we usually eat.
other than finding all these crabs we also found an octopus. once we got it to come out of the shell Jessica was handling it when I decided to hold it, because really, its not every day you get to hold an octopus, but little did I know that all the stress we were putting it through was pissing it off and it ended up biting my hand. I freaked out a little once my hand was feeling numby and burning and I realized it had injected me with its venom. my hand has swollen considerably but the experience is awesome
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