1. Barrier island and salt marsh
SeaBrook Island
Barrier island and salt marsh

2. Anatomy of The beach at Seabrook
Beach face
from wrack line to swash zone
Berm is the area from wrack line to dune. Also called backshore
Wrack Line
Where waves or swash end
Swash Zone
Anatomy of The beach at Seabrook

3. Just for your information

4. Dunes

5. Maritime Forest with salt marsh

6. Salt Marsh Mud Maybe I will look younger when I get back

7. This is the ecotone zone between maritime forest and salt march

8. Normally the mud in a salt marsh is brown but when you see these black areas you know anaerobic bacteria are producing the lovely swamp gas smell form below. No oxygen present means fermentation !!!

9. Salt Marsh Low Tide

10. Pickle Plant only found in Salt mArsh. You can Eat it

11. Lung snails on the marsh grasses

12. This area is called an estuary although no brackish water

13. Skeleton of a soft coral
This is what it looked like alive
Skeleton of a soft coral

14. These crabs make the holes you see in the sand sometimes
Ghost Crab

15. Dead Longnose Gar on the Beach
These scales are ganoid type. Gar is good to eat and the scales can be used for a lot of things
Dead Longnose Gar on the Beach

16. The poor fishy’s mean looking teeth

17. These sea oats keep the dunes from eroding

18. Sometimes called the friendly crab live in the dunes and beach area and sometimes run across your path as you walk
Squareback Marsh crab

19. A sand Dollar is really an urchin

20. Walking along the beach we saw dolphins concussing fish to knock them out for dinner. Totally cool!!