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Trip Report: Light House & Tide Pools, Crescent City, CA, USA

Evan and I have a great time tide-pooling near the light house in Crescent City. There were so many species of sea weed. Not as many animals as other places that I've done this, but lots of limpets, crabs, and Black Tegula Snails.

As far as birds go, we saw Pigeon Guillemots, Western Gulls, Brown Pelicans, Cormorants, and Northern Rough-winged Swallows.

I could have spend hours doing this... Evan had to drag me away from it!

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Black Tegula, Tidepool Sculpin, Striped Shore Crab, Little Rockweed, Coraline Red Alga, Plate Limpet, and Bleachweed.

Blooming heather in the Highlands

Vincent Price as Gerald Pyncheon -

Pacific or Western Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata), family Emydidae, northern California

Vulnerable, due to habitat destruction/degradation and introduction of invasive species (like the Red-eared Slider).

This species was extirpated from Canada. It once ranged into British Colombia.

This is the only species of NATIVE freshwater turtle found in California. (Other species have been introduced.)