Sardines

Lots of fish in school.

My kids dig school!

Sand Crabs

We catch these guys at the beach all the time.

Just wait until a wave pulls back out, run and grab a couple of handfulls of sand, flip it and watch for the little guys trying to dig their way back into the sand.

At the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA), they had a tank of these guys and you could see them filter feeding. I always thought they were going after detritus (small bits of organic matter), but here you can clearly see them grabbing plankton.

Cool!

Go with the flow

While we were working our way back down to Oxnard from San Francisco, we stopped in a bunch of places - one of which was the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Lots of cool displays that had lots of happy specimens in them. I'll use this trip and other points on the way down as posting sources for the next few days (yes - the surf is down, but thats not the only reason I'm moving in this direction - it's my blog...).

For now - here are some cool jellyfish!

Enjoy!