Day two of sampling was another lovely day, although the wind had picked up a bit and the sunshine was more hazy. It was also the lowest tide of the year! Today's task was to complete all of my transects (counting seagrass shoots for density measures and counting the number of Sargassum plants along the transects to measure change over time). Once we had finished all of the work and before the tide came in, we saw a very interesting phenomenon. Most all of the razor clams (of which there were A LOT!), had 'jumped' out of their holes due to lack of oxygen (from the tide being out for so long) and were just lying all over the surface of the shore, old and young alike! I had never seen such a thing before and found it all really incredible! I had also never seen the foot of a razor clam (what you see sticking out the end in the photo) as it is tries to dig and put itself back in it's hole. Wow... marine organisms are so totally cool!
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