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Calm After the Storm...
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The ocean is on the other side of the Salishan Spit. This is an estuary. [ link to images.search.yahoo.com (secure)] Where fresh water and saltwater meet. There are seastars all over the tidepools. Orange, purple, and red. Big ones. Yachats is a great place to see them. Hmmm interesting indeed.... do you see many other things? Shrimp, urchins, gobies, etc.? I've personally considered the idea of making an aquarium with temperate organisms, less colourful perhaps but still interesting creatures. Tho' as I've gotten a little older, I've come to appreciate the idea of merely going to visit and seeing everything simply interacting in nature, if perhaps less visibly, than actually putting it in a tank. Besides.... a heater for a reef tank is easily aqcuired, but a chiller is much more expensive and difficult to maintain. So I recall from mild research on the subject. Not so much here, no. Lots of different kinds of birds though. Eagles, Herons, Pelicans, Ducks, sea birds.  Chillers are expensive. And less available are that which require said. You would have to most likely take them from the rocks, and because so few have done it, keeping them alive would be very difficult. In school, the class on birds was the only one I could halfway pay attention to. And indeed I still have retained some knowledge.... though the class seemed very short. To complete the class, we'd go on 'birdwatching trips' and record what we saw. It was the last class I was able to take with my best friend at the time, before our paths diverged. The time is fairly charged with nostalgia when I look back. I've been hoping that by the time I return to finish the degree, that I'll have improved my socializing skills somewhat. This place (GLP) helps me learn, and while I've considered that 'internet skills' do not translate over to 'real life', it seems to be the case that the close-knit ties I feel while here, seems to be the stronger enabler for me.
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