We wandered our way out to the mussel beds, with Jamie and Marc stopping to look at all the interesting animals in the tidepools we crossed. *

Jon and Marc had the fishing licenses in our group, so they did the harvesting--which took about 15 minutes!

This is what they were harvesting.

You are allowed to have 10 pounds of mussels per fishing license, so Marc weighed the harvest--with Jamie watching closely. *

Jamie is showing you that we left a few mussels for the next person...

There are very big waves just on the other side of the mussel bed. (This is where they hold the big Mavericks surfing contest!)

Hey, that's not a mussel! *

The starfish Jamie found in the middle of the mussels.

Now that they had their 20 pounds of mussels, Marc and Jamie could spend the rest of the afternoon wading in tidepools. Jamie kept insisting that Marc wade deeper and deeper...