...and while we're in daylight, this outcropping was a subject of interest in that most of it disappears when the tide comes in. There is up to an 8-foot difference in water level...what we have here is obviously at low tide; one can see only the very top of the rock on the right at high tide. The seaweed-looking stuff on the rocks to the left is obviously adapted to this inter-tidal zone, and features bladders of air that help them extend up into the water to maximize surface area exposed to nutrients, etc. that are in the water:
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