Today we had a visitor from Parks Victoria give us a talk about Marine National Parks. We learnt that there are three types of seaweed and they are classified by color. Green, Brown and Red.
Sponge comes in all shapes and sizes.
We saw some sea snail shells. You can tell the difference between the carnivorous and vegetarian snails. The ’round salad bowl’ opening is for the vegetarian snails and the ‘gravy boat’ shaped openings are carnivorous.
Limpids have a strong foot at the bottom and they always come back to the same place. They leave a track and smell it to find the way back. They keep a bubble of water in their shell so they don’t dry out.
No animal likes to eat the elephant snail. They are noctornal and they don’t like light.
Cuttle fish are a close relative to squid and they release a black ink also.
We had a rockpool ramble at Bastion and we learnt lots of new things from the marine ranger.
Checkout some of our photo’s in tomorrows blog.