The second day of our vacation we hit Bastendorff Beach just south of Coos Head. It was a long time since I got to walk by the ocean. I noticed the waves were kicking up what looked like small rocks in their wake, as they surged across the tide pools. On close examination they were alive. They looked like (my) thumb-sized bugs. They rode the edge of the tide, burrowing into the sand as the edge turbulence kicked it up. Then, on the next wave moving in on the incoming tide, also moving a inland little more. The lady where we were staying said they were sand crabs.
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| Sand Crab that is dead lying on the beach. |
We walked the length of the beach up to the jetty, which we climbed on. I wondered, amid the huge rocks, if one could shift. Meh. We turned the other way and walked down to Yoakam point.
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| View from top of southern jetty. |
Along the edge of Yoakam Point was a raised area above the water. We found a singular kind of tide pool there, a few feet up. Maybe the term is splash pool, depending on if the tide gets there. It actually had little fish in it as well as the usual stuff we might see in the bay. They behaved like little catfish one may get for an aquarium. I don't see them in any stills, only the video I took.
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| Close up of that healthy-looking thing in the tide pool. |
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| Kind of beautiful here. Quiet, too. Coos Head rises to the right. |
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| Cape Arago Lighthouse. |
Guess that's it for this.
