Tide pool finds

The other day, we were walking to Kalk Bay to get some birthday icecream. There, right by the path, are TIDE POOLS! The family were a little surprised at my excitement, but I’ve never lived by the coast. And none had told me that Muizenberg had tide pools!!! The next day I returned and spent ages hoping about on the rocks, finding cool creatures and having a ball 🙂 Here are done photos with minimal commentary, for your enjoyment.

There were sea stars (starfish) everywhere! I got excited by the first one, much to the confusion of a child who gestured to the other pools positively overflowing with the beasties.

Tiny shrimp, fish (klipvis), snails, anemones, molluscs, urchins… So much life!

I’ll be there again soon, and you can expect some enthusiastic posts when I find the mythical nudibranches, but for now I’ll restrain myself for the sake of your internet bandwidth. I leave you with this Cape Lappet caterpillar from our garden, a little gift from heaven

Genesis 1:21 – So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.