This is the house site again and there's only two more trees to take down that you can see and it needs to be leveled.
This is the garden area. Barry has put all the stumps and such next to the property line. I'm not sure I like that but it will grow native plants on it. There was a squirrel running on it already. I hope we didn't destroy his home :< The fruit trees will be to the right. The soil there is black.
Barry is out working on our lot clearing and moving piles of debris. This is where our garage is going to be.
Jeremy has been brushing and here he is taking a break to have his lunch in the shade. :)
This is where our house is going to go. The trees will have to be pushed over but otherwise it is quite a nice level site in the sun !!
This is just beside the house area where the garden and fruit trees will be.
This excavator has a thumb and it's just amazing to see it pick up even small pieces of wood. This is the garage site from a differnt angle.
This is an oyster shell with tiny pink whatsits on it :) I haven't a clue.
This of course is a little jelly fish. There were lots of little jelly fish on the beach poor things.
These are tiny little shore birds, about the size of a small sparrow. I think they were feasting on the bullheads because there was thousands of tiny bullheads in the water.
This is a green burrowing anemone. We saw lots of these in the sand but this is the only one you can clearly see the arms of. All the others had folded in their arms and tucked in their sides so you can barely see them. If you touch them they burry themselves further in the sand.
Last but nowhere the least this is part of a California sea cucumber. This story is not for the faint of stomach. We should be genetically engineered with cucumber DNA because these unusual sea creatures have quite a talent. If they are attacked they regurgitate their organs!! The enemy proceeds to eat the organs and the sea cucumber makes a hasty retreat and regrows all its organs!! Ahh Heeee!!
The tide was way out again so Barry and I walked out to Mrytle rock. There was as you can see lots of wild flowers blooming right now, 4 geese, 2 oyster catchers, a large shore bird we have never seen before, a blue heron of course and us!!
These are chocolate lilies and yes they are chocolate color with yellow inside.
I don't know what the blueish purple little flowers are but the pink flowers are wild onions!!
Barry and I think these are monkey flowers but we may be wrong although that is very unlikely!!
More onions on a background of who knows what!!
This poor star fish is upside down. You can see all his little tenticles that he uses to navigate and move food to his mouth which is in the very middle of his body. Star fish are amazingly strong. They can open oyster and clam shells and such.
I'm not sure but I think this is called a leather (oh darn what did I hit) star fish. He's not bumpy like the Purple star fish.
I'm not sure what kind of star fish this is at all, I don't think I've seen one before. It was very big 8-10 inches acoss and as you can see brown.
This is a sunflower star one of the biggest sea stars. It can have from six to twenty four legs depending on its age as it gets more legs as it gets older. This star fish looks pretty mushy compared to others. I hope its ok as one that was close by was half eatten by gulls.
Can you see the great blue heron and the Canada goose in the water? Theres also 2 gulls.
The tide was incredibly low (0.0) so there was lots to see at the beach. Especially lots of star fish. We don't often see orange star fish but I saw a few this time.
These are sand dollars. The light one is empty but the black ones are still alive. If you look closely at the black ones bottom you can see its tiny hairs on the bottom move. 
This is a funny hermit crab. He has grown too big for his borrowed shell so he is having a very hard time hiding on me :)
This is an empty moon snail shell. Well it's not empty right now because it has a baby star fish inside!
Moon snails make very unusual nests for their eggs in my opinion. They make a nest of sand and slim in the shape of a toilet plunger. The fist time I ever saw one Jeremy had brought it home from the beach and I gave him such a lecture on bringing home other peoples garbage. Imagine bringing home a toilet plunger!! Ahhh hee!
Oops I missed the miners lettuce. I don't know why the words decided to crawl down the photo and pool at the bottom. Silly things!!
