Tide+Pool+Trip



We went to Washdyke Lagoon with Jean from the South Canterbury Museum.

OUR TIDEPOOL WRITING
On Monday we went to the Tide pools.I found a sea creatre called a cat's-eye! I also found a thing called a chiton.A cat's-eye is black with a dark blue eye.The eye is right up the top.The chiton is white with black spot's and it sticks very well and really hard.The legs of a cat's eye are really gooey and gross. The cat's eye felt hard and the chiton felt lumpy because of the black spots. The tide pools are a Washdyke near the fire station. I saw a sea anemone. I also saw a cushion star. Someone found a humongous crab. - E.H.

At the rock pools I found crabs and cat's eyes, sea anemones too. We were going to find starfish but we had to go back to school. - W.B.

On Monday two classes went to explore the rocky shore. I found a sea anemone and it had pointy tentacles. The crabs have nippers used to pull meat from dead animals. Sea lettuce is interesting. Water worms are black with thin legs! There was even a dead sting ray. I found a lot of cool tide pool animals. - H.M.

On Monday W1 and O2 went to the rock pools. It was not a day to go swimming. It was a day to go and find creatures. I found a sea anemone. The pools were slimy. - G.P.

I went to the tide pools. I saw a starfish. I saw a hermit crab. - E.W.

On Monday Waitaki One and Opihi 2 went to the rock pools. In my group was me, Z, and L. I saw a shag's nest with two eggs. I found a sea anemone and I touched it. In felt bumpy and prickly. I found ten crabs and fourteen sea snails. Where we went is where the lava went. - W.S.

I went to the rocky shore and I found heaps of things. I found sea anemones, we went with O2 and it was really cool. But we found three sea anemones and other things. - K.H.

Our class and O2 went to the rock pools. I went with a parent. I looked at a shag. I leapt to the shag. It was on a rock by the sea. Some of the rocks are light green and some are dark orange. They are slimy. -N. W-H.

The rocky shore has lots of sea anemones. There are cushion stars and there was a sting ray. There are many different sea animals that I didn't know about and there were dead bodies of crabs and sea anemones. There were sea snails and there were black worms. The rocky shore is a great place. It is a great place to learn new sea animals. We went with O2. There were black seaweed there were different sorts of seaweed. Here is a list of animals and other stuff: sea lions, lots of dead stuff. Some people had four backpacks. The black worm felt slippery and wrinkly. The dead crab felt hard and ragged. The black seaweed is hard super swavy, lumpy, ragged, old. too. - J.S.

Waitaki One and O2 went to the beautiful rock pools. I saw a big frozen shag. It was like a statue. I saw a shiny red crab. I caught it. I liked the trip. - G.S.

On Monday I went to the rock pools. Then I saw two shags and a sea anemone. Then a starfish and a crab. M.S.

One day Waitaki One and Opihi 2 went to the Washdyke rock poos. At the lagoon rockpools I saw a sea anemone in one of the rock pools on the other side of the rock pool was a crab. At the rockpools me and K walked through the water to catch up with J and B on the big pipe. In the big pipe there was a jinte big whole crach. - L.W.

Two weeks ago our class went to the rocky shore there was amazing stuff there like crabs and limpets. I liked the cat's eye snail. I saw a sea anemone. - K.Q.

On Monday W1 and O2 went to the Washdyke Lagoon. The rock pools were slippery. My mum found a long wriggly smooth worm it was 10cm long. And we found a beautiful sea anemone and there were heaps of rough mussels and smooth cat's eyes. It was fun and I learned new stuff. - E.P.

We went to the rock pools and we found crabs. the waves crashed on the rocks. They were big waves. - J.M.

On Monday W1 and O2 went to the rock pools. The rock pools were big and slimy. It was not a sunny day it was a big bad cloudy day and the water was freezing. Our group found a ribbon worm and it was really long. Our group did not find a crab but lots of other groups did. Our group found a sea anemone and it was read and grey and a bit of yellow. There were lots of mussel shells and we had to stand on them. The mussel shells were crackly. We got a net but we did not catch anything. I think another group caught a crab. There was green slippery stuff on some of the rocks and there was a big rock pool and there were some small rock pools. Every Monday I would like to go to the rock pools.because you can find lots of awesome cool things. - A.T.

Last week O2 and W1 went to the rocky shore. I found a cat's eye and a cushion star and a sting ray but it was dead. There was a huge crab. It had huge nippers. They are called sand crabs. They camouflage themselves in the sand.