Low Tide Nature Walk

I've been wanting to do a low tide nature walk for a few years, but the stars never aligned. It was either cold and rainy, someone was sick, or we had something going on. Well, today it finally worked out! Evan had gone to Alki beach for a 1st grade field trip and did something similar. He loved it and was excited to go again.  Today we went back to West Seattle, but a different beach park. We met with a volunteer naturalist and found some amazing creatures! We lifted rocks to see the crabs scurry away. We walked along the rocks and seaweed and found millions of anemone. We came across clams and huge crabs (Is it alive? Is it dead? Is it just an empty shell that he outgrew?) We also found a moonsnail emerged from his shell - you know it's rare when the naturalist takes a picture of your find!! We went to the water's edge and found where the sea stars were. And then we headed to the sand bank and found groups of sand dollars. Our favorites were the crabs, sea stars and sand dollars. Soo cool!