On May 25, 2023, my class left for a trip to Odiorne in Maine. We went after state testing, and it was definitely not what I was used to. It was filled with different kinds of seaweeds, kelps, and water creatures. The rocks were very slippery and water surrounded some of them. Wherever you went, you would find something different about each part, even if they were only 50 or 100 feet away from each other. The tide pools were all different, some had big rocks providing shelter, while others had very little places to hide. Mussels, crabs, snails, periwinkles, lobsters, etc. all were found in one small tide pool. Every part was different and interesting in its own way.
White barnacles cling
Making the black rocks seem white
Never ever letting go
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Stay dry up here
Above the waves of the water
The dry zone stays super dry
I think the most variety was in the tide pools/red zone. Though you could find many things in the large expanse of the water in the bay, you couldn’t find as much as in the tidepools. In the tide pools, lobsters, crabs, periwinkles, snails, mussels, kelp, seaweeds, and clam shells. I think that the animals in the bay were large, but there were fewer of them. The only thing that the bay had the tide pools didn’t have was the hermit crabs. I think that it was rather interesting how you could find more in a smaller area.
