Monday morning Dr. Dinnel and I met with a film crew from Western. They interviewed us on the history of the restoration project and oysters in Washington in general. It was fun and laid back, I just don't think about that fact that people will see it later. Apparently our interviews will be edited into a few minute segment for a show through WWU. Hopefully we get a copy and I can see how goofy I sounded.
After we were finished with filming Dr. Dinnel and I headed further down the road to Crandall Spit on refinery property. After we checked in with security and got the go-ahead we headed down to the beach. We planted a temperature sensor and took a series of quadrat samples to asses suitability as native oyster habitat. There are plans to place dead oyster shell there to encourage recruitment.
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| We walked under the oil pipeline to get where we needed to on the beach. |
Dr. Dinnel was not surprised to find the occasional Olympia oyster already where we were doing our quadrat samples. The one pictures below is an oyster of unusual size, well it is big for an Olympia.
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| Large Olympia found at Crandall Spit. |
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| The beautiful survey area. |
While I was poking around in the stream running from a lagoon to the open water I found a hermit crab living without a shell. I felt bad for the little guy but he was being picky, there were quite a few shells around. I did place him on a rock and as hoping he would unwind and leap off but not while I was looking apparently. The curly part visible in the picture is his rear, usually hidden in the home.
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| Naked hermit crab. |
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