Seashore treasures

We found so many treasures along the seashore.  We collected such a variety of shells including cockles, oysters, painted top shells, razorshells, scallops and also a few cuttlefish 'bones' and mermaids purses.  And a bagful of pebbles of different shapes and sizes each with their own story.  Sol, always the explorer, spent most of his time with his head down examining this and that; Leo, more of a thrill-seeker, action boy, loved splashing about in the waves.  Boy, he shivered so with sheer excitement from wave jumping.  

Little Noah, enjoyed a bit of this and that, but mostly liked building cobble towers or playing in the sand.  When he was tired out, he liked nothing more than his happy milk and a peaceful sleep on the beach with mama closely keeping a watch by his side.

Sandhoppers.  These cheerful little chaps found themselves included in many sandhopper traps and sandhopper racetracks.  None of them were hurt during the games.

Eggs of some sort!  Interesting though.

Wobbly fish as Noah calls jellyfish.

Kelp

Shy little hermit crabs.

Lug worms!  These worms are rarely seen except by fishermen digging for bait.  My father would absolutely love to get his hands on some of these to fish with!!  The worm lives in a burrow with a cast at one end and a blowhole at the other - so blowhole and cast appear in pairs.

Boy, did we all have fun with these.  We dug between the paired blowhole and cast and searched for the worm.  We had competitions on who could find the biggest.  Leo found the biggest and Sol found the most.