One square foot of beach at Tracey Road beach access on Pender Island, British Columbia, Canada.
This is a post about what you find as you are walking along and then suddenly, for whatever reason, you look down at your feet. This is exactly what happened as we were walking along the beach at Tracey Road beach access. The tide had just gone out, the rocks were slippery, I looked down before taking a step and WOW. I could not believe what lay immediately in front of me.
The image at the top is roughly a 12 inch by 12 inch area. The life thriving in this little area is amazing: little starfish and a big one, a crab, sea urchins, barnacles, shells (with occupants…I checked!), kelp, a weird funky green bug and a “tubie thing” (technical term, LOL! it is on the bottom edge of the image under the big starfish if anyone has a clue what it is).
Truly amazing!
crab
starfish and insect (?)
sea urchin
upside down starfish
starfish and barnacle
island home 
you have so much life on your west coast beaches I remember it well, I was forever being stopped in my tracks by it, thanks for sharing,
I’m away from home looking after my grandsons who returned to school this morning, so I’ve enjoyed finally catching up with all your beautiful photos of your island, thanks, Frances
I hope you had fun with your grandsons. Our children went back to school yesterday; so sad.
What an incredible collection! It shows that the waters must be very clean and unpolluted for such an array of sea creatures to thrive.
The water is very clean. It is an amazing place.
What an amazing picture. Wow. So incredible the Ocean life in such a small space.
The picture reminds me of one of the “Eye Spy” books.
Truly amazing and beautiful!
Thank you and thanks for following the blog.
My pleasure. Your blog is lovely.