To the Museum

	Visiting the tidepools at Pillar Point, near Half Moon Bay, was a freezing cold and wet experience, but we were all smiling because we had such a great time!
	Lilla and Shanna discovered many tidepool animals. Lilla has a turban snail crawling on her hand. The pool was home to many purple sea urchins.
	Christina, Felicia, and Dorris have discovered brightly colored nudibranchs, a type of sea slug.
	There's a hermit crab in that jar!!!! It was really cool to observe. Being careful not to impact the area, we put it back in the same pool where we found it.
	This sea star is eating a mussel. It pries the mussel off the rock with its many strong tube feet then sends its jelly like stomach outside of its mouth to creep in between the tiny crack between the mussel shells and digest the soft insides.
	Here's Donnie and one of our teachers, Mr.Cheung, observing the barnacles and anemones.