Deception Pass
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Deception Pass
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Keystone ferry dock
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Just made it!
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Port Townsend
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The native rhododendrons were peaking!
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Rhododendron macrophyllum
(coast rhododendron)
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Pillar Pt. State Beach
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Pillar Pt. State Beach
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Lottia persona
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This is Hemigrapsus nudus but keep an eye out for Pachygrapsus crassipes, which has recently expanded its range northward, e.g., the outer coast of Vancouver Id. (see Cassone & Boulding, 2006; Mar. Biol. 149: 213–226)
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Tentative: Lirularia succincta
(tucked margarite)
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Lottia persona
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L. persona
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L. persona
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Hemigrapsus nudus female |
H. nudus female escaping
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Lottia scutum
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Tentative: Littorina sitkana |
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Lottia digitalis
(northern finger limpet) |
Lottia digitalis
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Lottia persona |
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Cancer carapace |
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New pizza kitchen in Neah Bay
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Tasty pie
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Motel at Bullman Beach, near Neah Bay
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Wall photo of Pisaster ochraceus
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Costaria costata
(seersucker kelp)
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Mopalia muscosa and Fucus gardneri
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Halosaccion glandiforme
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Mytilus californianus
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Lottia digitalis
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Lottia paradigitalis
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Whelks (Nucella sp.)
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Anemone condominium
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Onchidella borealis |
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Lottia pelta and Fucus gardneri
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Lottia scutum and Phyllospadix scouleri |
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Bald eagles gather for salmon hand-outs in Neah Bay (Makah Indian Reservation)
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Trail to Cape Flattery
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Cedars
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Skunk cabbage
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Cape Flattery
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Many nesting pelagic cormorants
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Tatoosh Id., site of Dr. Bob Paine's famous ecological studies on the "keystone species" Pisaster ochraceus (ochre seastar) |
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Pisaster preying on its favorite food, the competitive dominant Mytilus californianus
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Tentative: Cranopsis multistriata
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Salt Creek
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Macrocystis is present here and on outer coast but is absent in the San Juan Is. and in Puget Sound
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Good habitat for lug worms
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Tongue Pt.
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Semibalanus cariosus and Anthopleura elegantissima (great habitat for Cyanoplax fernaldi, a self-fertile brooding chiton)
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Chlorostoma funebralis
(formerly Tegula funebralis)
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Chlorostoma funebralis
(black turban snail)
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Lottia digitalis
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C. funebralis is present at this site and the outer coast but for unknown reasons is absent from the nearby San Juan Is.
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L. digitalis
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Lottia digitalis, Littorina sp., and barnacles |
Lottia digitalis and barnacles
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Lottia digitalis and barnacles
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Nucella ostrina (orange morph) |
N. ostrina
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Katharina tunicata
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Lunch near the Port Angeles ferry dock
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We were served "steamer clams." It is Meretrix lusoria (common oriental or hard clam), probably flown in from Asia.
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Meretrix lusoria is a popular seafood and traditionally used as a Chinese remedy for liver disease and chronic hepatitis (see here). |
Hood Canal floating bridge
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Bainbridge Id. ferry dock
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Approaching Seattle
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