Diario de theresephillips

Super late writing and posting this post since this trip was in early September. Anyways, on our trip, we went to the coast of Oregon near Cannon Beach. We stayed at Manzanita and spend most of our time there. Found lots of marine life when I came out on the beach at low tide and there was a huge rock with tons and tons of barnacles and sea anemones mostly. We have been to this beach many times before and never been to came down when it was that low tide. I remember seeing so many sea dollars at the beach in the early days of visiting the beach but we only founds one or two sand dollars our last and more recent trips only which was sad and makes me wonder why. I also remember one trip we saw a bunch of man of sail jellies (I think) one trip and that trip only. Back to this trip, we also visited Cannon Beach, Seaside, and Short Sand Beach and trails. When we visited Seaside, we went to church, went to lunch somewhere I do not remember, and went to the beach for a small bit but did not see much as I remember. Next, me and my dad visited Short Sand trail and beach. I going to talk about the observations that I found on the trails on the way to and back to the beach. I found lots of mushrooms on the trail which was super fun since it was the most new fungi that found at once at the time. Next is the beach where I did not found anything except for a good size and in a perfect shape purple olive snail shell which I took back to my mom as she requested me to bring her a shell from the beach. Short Sand trails was my favorite part of the entire beach and then Manzanita beach. On the way back home, we stopped at Cannon Beach to wrap up the trip and I did not find much since the tide pools were lowkey off limits and it was super busy per usual. On the road back, I took two observations out of my window of some trees and such. Trip, overall, was super fun and Manzanita in general, is my favorite place in Oregon since I took my first steps on the beach (a little fun fact about me)! Looking forward to next time!

For limpets, it is beneficial to get shots of the top and bottom and the sideview. The top and bottom shows the patterns while the sideview shows the shape of the limpet. I know this is a small post but if you have anything else to add, please do!

I wanted to add a comment for bryozoan observations. I am not a professional bryozoan identifier but I have read up on some of the species found in Washington state and would like to say some important photo advice to add in on observations of any bryozoan species. First off, a picture of the whole bryozoan colony and to show where the settlement is attached on will help with the basic understanding of which species to include and exclude from the possible species. An example of this would be kelp lace bryozoan is the main species to be found on kelp. The next photos should be taken with a macro lens view. For phones, you can use a phone macro lens which is my preferred method of capturing these photos that take of small specimens. Make sure to have the clear view of the individual borders of the individual bryozoans. This helps with identifying the species with their own unique patterns, such as the kelp lace bryozoan which is my only and primary subject as in writing this post and is easily confused with other white patterned bryozoan without the macro view of the colony pattern. I hope this will help with making your bryozoan observations posts to be more accurate and specific as much as possible.

For plants, it would be useful to have pictures of the leaves, stalks or stems especially with leaves format on the stem and the flower layout on the stem, seeds, and the flowers up close for identifying. For the habitat and to see if it is cultivated, it would also be helpful to have a wide-angle picture and it is also beneficial to have a picture of the whole plant. If you want to add anything else, please leave a comment.