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Creature Textures

December 1, 2018

 

We were the first ones to walk down the beach after the tide went out. About a half mile into our walk, we came across this expansive curious cross-hatch pattern of cast out sand from some kind of community of creatures. It seems they were all "keeping house" after the receding sea. It looks like they came up slinging sand either front to back or side to side, and not in a radial fashion

 

I dug into a few of them, but found nothing. My guess is sand fleas - little shrimp-like crustaceans. Any guesses? Anyone know the responsible party?

 

Newcomb Hollow Beach

Cape Cod National Seashore

Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Cape Cod - USA

 

Photo by brucetopher

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