Peter,
Being in the Southern Hemisphere I can remember last summer.
I did take the dog for a walk last week and incidentaly noyiced the tide was
very low near Ricketts Point which is a rocky area in suburban Melbourne.
There were huge numbers of Subninella undulata, Austrocochlea odontis and
Bembicium auratum(?). All of these are quite common but not in these numbers
on a suburban beach
Geoff


>From: Peter Egerton <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Collecting this low tide
>Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:51:05 -0700
>
>Hi all,
>
>How did all of you out there in CONCH-L land spend
>this lowest tide of the summer?
>
>I had a great time on the local sandflat (Spanish Banks)
>digging for clams. I found hundreds of Macoma balthica,
>Nuttallia obscurata and Cryptomya californica, as well
>as stealing a Clinocardium nuttallii that a crow was in
>the process of breaking by dropping on the wharf. I would
>be going to Boundary Bay today in search of more Lottia
>alveus, Nucella and other goodies, but the sky is just
>black with clouds, maybe tomorrow...
>
>Good luck,
>
>Peter Egerton
>
>
>
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