heni's Journal

Took time this afternoon to check out the inter tidal zone. I was mainly looking for interesting looking barnacles, but found other equally interesting creatures. There are so many oysters! But I'm not sure if they are the native rock oyster or Pacific rock oysters. I'm hoping the former.

I enjoyed mucking around in the local rock pools so much that when we visited Russell over the weekend, I couldn't resist seeing what the local marine life looked like there. The tide was pretty high so I could only check out the highest of tidal pools - even so, there was plenty happening. And many of the shells are quite different from those around the South Head of the Kaipara Harbour.