Time to process that backlog of photos from the weekend....
Saturday morning, there was a nice low tide, so I'd decided to have a tidepooling expedition (to Pillar Point this time, instead of the main entrance to Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, up at Moss Beach). I dropped it into the main Sierra Singles schedule for May, but didn't announce it on the e-mail list.
Apparently any people who might have been inclined to go weren't looking in the May schedule for April 30th events; I didn't have any takers. I went anyway.
It was a gray day, but fairly warm, and not windy. The tide was well out, as expected.
(Click any photo to see a larger version.)
I headed down the main trail from the parking turnout at Pillar Point. This got me to a rather small patch of rocks, with cormorants perching at the far end.
I'd somehow had the notion that it was possible to stroll from here to the larger patch of rocks north of the point. Heck, maybe it was possible, a few years ago, or when the tide was lower. Anyway, not wishing to backtrack, I just explored the readily accessible area.
Yup, there are some nice tidepools here, all right.
Cormorant standing guard.
More of 'em, out at the far end. Harbor seals in the foreground.
Awww... harbor seals on the rocks.
First starfish of the day.
There were many sea urchins out there.
Also, quite a few great big sea anemones.
A bit further out, the tidepools are paved with bits of shells.
Piddock! This'n doesn't appear to be alive.
Unidentified Feathery Object.
Whale vertebra. Species and position in spinal column unidentified.
Mixed urchins and anemones.
C'mon up!
Ah, that's better!
By this time, the tide was starting to come in.
Clumps and clumps of greenish squidgy things... guess these are small anemones, closed despite being underwater.
This started out as a simple photo of an unidentified red thing down a hole in the rock. On closer examination, the red thing appears to be an anemone of some sort.
After cropping, though... whose eye is this???
Anyway, so much for Saturday at the coast.
Saturday evening, I went to a filksing at Kanef's place - official start time was 4:00, but, being a filksing, it couldn't get properly started until sunset. I noted the transition out of oyster season (Walpurgisnacht has an "r" in it; Bealtaine doesn't; now we're out of oyster season until the next month with an Arrr! in it).
I left the filksing around 10:15 or so, but by that time was rather overcaffeinated, and didn't get to sleep until around midnight, which led me to cancel my annual alarm for 1 May @ 0330, forgetting any notion of watching the Morris dancers out at Concretehenge.
The Morris dancers were apparently successful; by the time I got going in the morning, the Sun was up, and it was looking like quite a nice day. So, off to the repeat of my Easter wldflower hunt at Edgewood!
Yup, the flowers are awake, all right!
When we stopped for lunch at the main picnic area, this rare melanitic pygmy mountain lion was on the prowl, stalking small children.
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