Sunday, October 12, 2008

Lovers Point Beach Wildlife

An outing to Lovers Point Beach today turned out to be a great chance to get some photos of the wildlife.

First we went to the tidepool area and looked at the sea stars and hermit crabs. Unfortunately, the sea stars didn't photograph well but I got some nice ones of the crabs...



There were a ton of seagulls hanging around the park who were so used to people that they would not fly away. I got only 2 or 3 feet away from this gull to take this photo:



Finally, on our way to leave, I heard cries of "Seal!!! Seal!!!" coming from the main beach. A seal came up all the way to the edge of the sand where all the people were before it got frightened and swam away. This photo was from above on the pier when it was first coming toward the beach:

1 comment:

Oliver said...

Dang! Those are some really nice ones of the hermit crabs...!