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Week 4: Willapa Bay. Janet was kind enough to host us at her fabulous bungalow, which we used as our home base.
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Looking back towards Janet's house as we began a long trek out to the eelgrass beds.
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The gang starts the walk.
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Invasive Microciona sponge.
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We nade it out to the channel marker and the fun begins.
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Dungeness everywhere!
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Clinocardium everywhere.
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Clinocardium.
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We finally found the Zostera, including a non-native species, Z. japonica.
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Once we started digging, the diversity of what we found went up exponentially! (Saccoglossus)
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Shawna was a ringer for clam digging.
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Leia got the hang of it...
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Janet's granddaughter was great at digging holes...
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and building mud castles with the spoils!
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We hit a dense area of ghost shrimp (formerly Callianassa now Neotrypaea)
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One of thousands of photos of Neotrypaea.
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The gang at work.
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Channels through the vast mud flat.
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On the bay there is an abandoned oyster farm.
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We found a surprising diversity of fish, and many life stages.
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Fish.
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Fish.
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Fish.
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After hours of hunting, it was time to turn back.
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