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 > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Peter Egerton, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada >Collector of worldwide Mollusca, lifetime student >of zoology and computers. > >E-mail: [log in to unmask] > (old: [log in to unmask] ) > >Web site: >"Peter's Seashells", including "Seashells of British Columbia" >http://members.shaw.ca/bcshells/index.html >(old: http://www.intergate.ca/personal/seashell/index.html ) _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com