Cages installed and predators collected

All the mussel bed squares now have cages! Now I just have to hope no one will bother them. I'll put out signs and contact information at the next low tide. I can't wait until the low tides are in the daytime.

An experimental unit. Five snails will go in here.

I just finished collecting all the predator dogwhelks to be the treatments for my caged mussel beds. They came from three different sites around central and southern California. Now I just need to finish measuring and labeling them and put them in the cages!

Snails labeled with bee tags

Here are some photos during a post-collection hike at one of my central California sites, Soberanes Point in Garrapata State Park.

Soberanes point

Big Sur coastline