A Bay Ghost Shrimp

October 25th (Friday)
The strong wind continued last night, and we were not able to get to sleep until around 02:00, but after that, the wind died away quickly, and we slept well. 
At 10:30 in the morning, for the first time in two weeks, there was no Gale Warning in effect. Yay!! The forecast for the coming four days was for fairly light winds, and we expected sunshine for at least a few of those days. Therefore, we made plans to head out the following day to a new anchorage that would be out on the outer islands. It is always exciting to go to a new area, and a new anchorage. 
Before heading out there we wanted to fill up with gas, and pick up our mail, so we headed out in Kiki for Shearwater. The winds were light, and the trip there was lovely. There were many dark cumulus clouds around, but between them was blue sky, and the sun was shining. It is always fun picking up our mail, and either opening up our ordered packages or receiving a letter from family. I may be old fashioned, but there sure is something nice about receiving a hand written, paper letter. We had timed our trip perfectly as we had had no rain for any of our time traveling in the tender, but it started to rain just as we got home. 
In the evening we went ashore. The moon cycle was getting closer to a new moon, which was making the tides lower and lower. We came across what we thought was a mud shrimp. 

 However, from looking in our book since being home we think that it was probably a Bay Ghost Shrimp. It was a very interesting creature, it looked like a mini lobster, with two little pinchers, but in a more shrimp-like shell; not super hard like a lobster’s. One disadvantage to not having the internet is that we cannot look up interesting animals like this to learn more about them. Maybe next time that we have internet for a while we will get a chance to answer some of our questions. Do they dig tunnels through the mud? What do they eat, and how do they feed? Do they ever go to the surface? Etc.

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