Water Temperature: 84F
Wind: breezy
Cloud Coverage: 80%
Humidity: 71%
Crystal Beach is not what comes to mind when someone says “beach.” My initial thought of the place was “Oh man, it smells and I don’t’ know how she expects us to get down in that water.”
My group, (Lisa, Sarah, Clark, Austin, and myself) had our 30-meter line along the shore in about shin-deep water. Our quadrat was placed every 3 meters, and we found the following organisms:
• Salt grass
• Gastropods
• Cyanobacteria
• Fiddler crabs
• Mollusks
• ‘Mini’ crabs
• Snails
Our diversity was .6291 out of 1
Throughout the afternoon we also saw a few other exciting things including:
• A huge stingray
• Horseshoe crabs mating
• The three types of mangroves
• A horseshoe crab go after Andrew
• A great blue heron
Our purpose of going to this park was to dive into diversity, examine how substrates can be mineral, plant and animal based, and to see the different types of mangroves and their differences.
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