which has thsi fantastic view of sea arches, we waited for the tide to go out, and watched the sand beach in the middle of the channel of Netarts Bay fill with clam diggers.
We were just doing random quadrats for counting eelgrass shoots and macroalgae. It was a VERY high density of eelgrass - in one quadrat I counted something like 321 shoots!!
I also found this really cool oyster shell full of the boring sponge, covered in some ophlitaspongia (the red sponge), as well as a couple of tiny opalescent nudibranchs and some brittle stars!! If you really want to see them close, you can click on the picture to zoom in :)
We returned to the campsite to pack up and move out of the yurt, then sat down at a picnic table in the sunshine to measure eelgrass and count macroalgae from the previous day as well as today. It took a long time and I went a little bit crazy part way through and started speaking in a french accent and interjecting french words into everything.
We finally finished, packed everything back into the truck and drove down to Newport where we pulled up in front of Dafne's lovely housesitting abode. I am ready to shirk my duties with my summer job, uproot myself, and move into her bungalow with Darla the dog, to spend the summer in Newport. She is about a block from a huge sandy beach that is perfect for running on, she has the cutest dog to sit for the summer, the house is the ideal lovely beach house, and the part of Newport that she lives in, Nye Beach, is really cute and full of cool people. We took Darla for a walk after making another huge gourmet meal, and stopped into the Cafe Mundo which was hosting an open mic night - looks like a super awesome place to hang out in the evenings.
Unfortunately Dafne and her boyfriend Toshi were out for most of the night at a sailing lesson, and Margot andI were pretty exhausted and not really too sociable, so we had a quick visit and a really good night's sleep.
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