Little Canada 2010- Rockpooling

Time and tide waits for no man. Here we are walking out on Woodlands beach. It was clear we would not have long in the Lower Intertidal zone and so it was certainly the case within three minutes we were informed it was time to turn around. Even then we needed to do a bit of a paddle. Back on the main part of the beach we got started on some serious pooling.

This shows how busy we all were searching, one of the strangest distractions was a swan bobbing on the ocean having come to see us from a nearby creek.

The hardest find this morning were crabs. We usually find plenty but today we really had to dig deep.

Success at last! This was a green shore crab but sure you knew that already

After a while it was time to gather round and share our finds. Apart from the crab, there were mussels, periwinkles, dog whelks, shrimps, slipper limpets to name but a few. The bit of island in the background is where we had been rockpooling only an hour before.




All the children then exercised their bodies as well as their brain by doing the "crabbyokey"