Indian Island Low Tide Evening Walk on January 23, 2012.

A scheduled January 22nd low tide walk did not take place due winds pushing the tide onto the tombolo. Those who showed up were not able to get out to Indian Island. The next evening Beach Watcher Nancy Alboucq and her husband, Steve were able to wade out to the island. They spent an hour exploring and taking photographs including the one below. They reported that on the far rocks the frosted dirona's were putting on a beautiful show and saw about a dozen of them. They also saw many porcelain crabs, gunnels (and what they believed were gunnel egg clusters), kelp crabs, barnacle nudibranch with egg ribbons, and hundreds of tiny shrimp with their eyes glowing in the tide pools and shallow water around the island.

The next time the island will be accessible is on April 8th. This is also the date of a scheduled invertebrate survey. Hope to see you out there.