Morning Walk on the Beach
Hi! This morning I woke up and went on a walk on the beach. It wasn't too hot outside yet because the sun was still rising - which was really nice! It got hotter towards the end of my walk around 7:30am. I really love taking walks early in the morning because there are less people. Usually, I walk on the street but this time I decided to go down onto the sand, because I thought I'd find more interesting organisms! Unfortunately, I had a harder time finding fungi and lichen until the end of my walk. At the end of my walk, I saw this rock that had massive discoloration, and it looked like it potentially had fungi or lichen on it! I thought that the washed up wood could potentially have some more obvious fungi, but they were harder to spot. Even though this is dramatic, I was slightly nervous to get super close to fungi after seeing the video of the Cordyceps fungi turning the ants zombie-like! I saw a lot of photoIithoautotrophs - the algae! I hadn't previously known they were protists. I included a bunch of interesting photos of algae and "broad-leaved gulfweed" that I found! Algae is super common to find on these beaches, and it reminds me of the red tide we experience often here. I also grabbed a photo of the green-looking algae since it is cool to differentiate it from the red! I find it interesting that some green algae at edible. Most of the algae I saw contained the red pigment, phycoerythrin. I saw so many different types of birds, so I just had to link those observations to this journal entry! The yellow-crowned night-heron was not happy I was taking photos of it and turned its head and proceeded to fly right at me! It was a funny experience.
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