Our Salt Water Aquarium at Stryker Island
August 1st (Thursday) Hard to believe it was three months ago today that we left Vancouver. We headed out for an early morning paddle this morning. The tide cycle had come around again so that we were getting the very low tides. This is a time we really like to go out exploring by kayak and look into our saltwater aquarium. Sheya in the kayak at low tide. Sheya in the same position at high tide. Today was no disappointment! We saw so much cool stuff. In some of the sandy shallow areas there were hundreds of shrimp. This is something we had not seen before, so I imagine that maybe they were congregated to breed. If they were startled in the shallows they would jump along the surface of the water to get away. Most of the time, however, they were quite unconcerned by our presence, and we could drift over in our kayaks and they would not bother moving. As a result, we got a good look at them, and we identified them as Coonstripe Shrimp. We were also seeing a lot o...