On Driftwood beach, all the trees in the surf zone were covered with life.
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Even dragonflies like to beach!
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I tried to rescue this stranded turtle as he tried to cross the interstate. He can jump!
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Baby black-tip shark. So happy.
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Some of the barnacles, limpets, and assorted mollusca on the trees.
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These anemones grow in the tidepools on the beach. They love me.
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A happy little limpet is loving me.
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This vulture was eating the remains of a fish near our cabin. I think it may have been another baby shark.
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One of the largest hermit crabs I saw there.
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I found this five-lined skink in our kithcen.
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This stump reminds me of Somorost.
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A zebra snail....or something else!
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A small dead horseshoe crab, washed up on the beach.
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This frog came to visit Leslie b/c she likes stuff like that.
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Discarded shell of a very small spotted sand crab.
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More anemones, full of joy and peace. And stinging nettles! Ooch!
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A different kind of hermit crab. I never found a live one like this.
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A real live knobbed welk.
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Leslie and I discovered the smallest crab ever! You couldn't see it without the arrow!
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A much larger, less playful skink.
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A photo of a photo. Of a sting ray.
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A living sand dollar. So prickly, to be sure!
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This gopher tortoise was hit by a car, rescued by the 4H Center, and is now used for educational purposes.
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An Amazing Spider-Crab.
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Sea robins are awesome. You should google them!
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This horseshoe crab is alive and living!
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Flounder meets horseshoe crab in a touchpool. They are touching.
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Stargazer. I hear they have electric powers!
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This sting ray is crazy!
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Flounder is camoflauged.
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A regular snapping turtle. Not special in any way.
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Baby diamondback terrapin. Possibly the cutest turtle ever.
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This pine snake is a hybrid of two different pine snake species. Insert witty comment here!
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Sweet wittle baby gopher tortoise!
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I wish I'd taken less pictures!
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This is Shelby, species Caretta caretta.
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I actually got to touch this loggerhead sea turtle before we ate her.*
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Some crazy huge spider.
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This is way too many pictures.
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This black rat snake was on our porch! Awight!
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Dylan is also a Caretta caretta.
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This snake looked just like my Jeff, only bigger.
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Don't eat the cambra!
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Legless lizard!
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Even leglesser!
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More diamondback cuteness!
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