Just four photos portraying familiar beach and rocky intertidal boundaries. These boundaries frequently serve as frames of reference for my intertidal tales.
Beach Boundaries
A pioneering dunegrass, Elymus, forges down off the safety of the foredune onto the backshoreA wrack line forms when king tides and storm surge push all the big wood up onto a shelf on the backshore
Boundaries on the Rocks
Boundaries between the anemones Anthopleura elegantisimma and A. xathogrammica come and goIn a crowded world, the chiton, Katharina tunicata, creates boundaries by maintaining a little open space
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Boundaries.”
