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I'm looking for mussels. You can see they're really well camouflaged on this beach.
They're sort of hidden in here. So I'm looking up the beach until I don't find anymore mussels.
I have to have more than a meter gap without any mussels. It doesn't have to be exactly
on my transect line. I'm sort of looking up this swath. So then
once I don't see any more mussels, I'll go back to the last mussel I did see and that
will be the top of this sampling transect. And one of the things this beach has... It
has an awful lot of these mussel shells. You can see these mussel shells have little holes
in them. I don't know the best way to show that. And
that's from snails. And they come and they drill this little hole and then poke through
and it detaches the mussel. And then they can open that shell and eat
out the mussel. So a lot of these shells in place have been eaten out by snails or oystercatchers.
I think this was my last little hold out. And then what I did back there is I marked
where I need to cross over my horizontal tape so that I can
want to lay this perpindicular to our horizontal tape and now I need to do the same thing but
find the bottom of the mussel bed.
And so this is... yeah, this is more what we think of when we think of a mussel bed.
A pretty good concentration there, and... They're really well camoflauged here. You
have to look closely to see that all these litle mussels are peaking up