Two days ago during a very low tide the staff and guests went tide pooling. I per usual, focused my attention on collecting sea vegetables for dinner that night, while the others were admiring Sea Stars and Sea Anemones, gathering shells, petrified crabs, and various sea rocks. A few of our staff members stumbled upon this beauty! A mussel shell which I can only imagine lived to be 50 years old (this is an estimate since it only takes about one year for a mussel to grow to harvest size). The more interesting thing about this mussel is that it grew this size in THIS Bay. Mussels cannot grow in water that has temperatures near freezing point (scroll down to oyster post...). We can only assume that this particular mussel was lucky enough to have found a warm spot in the bay where the temperature fell to an "un-growable" chill. Can you imagine steaming this thing, you'd need a steak knife to eat it! ...Special thanks to Charity Molnar for modeling the prize find...
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| Look at that Mussel! |
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| Unbelievable! |
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