We saw rays (big and small, spotted eagle ray and southern stingray), crabs (blue and hermit), hilarious pelicans, both the "bad" jellyfish and the "good" jellyfish, dolphin, sanddollars, a few friendly Labs (yellow and chocolate), little white fish that nibble your feet, tiny velvety-textured black fish (anyone know what they are?), lots of fish big and small, many jumping around or in huge schools, a gigantic Hercules beetle, but sorry, no turtles.
The most interesting critter find was the Eastern Glass Lizard (looks like snake, but stumpy). It was hanging outside of the Red Bar. I hope we didn't relocate the local "lounge lizard" by mistake. He is now living on Garfield St. behind the Blue Crab house.
Oh- and we found the weirdest little critter around the sandbars- possibly brittle starfish, but the picture we found does not match exactly. The main body was a small disk about the size of a pinky fingernail. Five stringy spaghetti-like legs came off the body. The legs were somewhat inflexible. The whole thing was bone white. We found them several days in a row.
Rent a kayak and you will have lots of cool things swim under you!
I know not everyone will agree with me, but it was nice seeing a few dogs romping in the surf and barking at the waves. Our kids found out where the yellow lab was living and took him home when he got tired. And I always visit the dog wall to see who survived another year.
We enjoyed hunting for shells too! We found some nice ones! This trip we were total beach bums!!
