Austin’s Blog

Hello, it’s me and I just recently went to air force beach! There are more than one air force beach in our entire planet and I will tell precise one I went to, it is located in Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Comox air force area and that’s were it is! Well, I went there with my friend Daniel my, mom and my sister and we go to go there and explore! It was low tide when we got there and there were a couple herons, and an eagle just perched on a rock looking at the ocean and we went on the side those birds were. It was difficult because you have to climb down a bunch of rocks and I almost slipped and injured my self but I saved my self in time. Once we got down we looked under rocks collecting these crabs and look at weird creatures and then my sister came along and slipped on a slippery rock but she didn’t hurt herself at least and then she watched us a little then left. The water was cold and lots of seaweed were floating around and a couple of bull fish were poking around and they were difficult to catch so I didn’t bother trying.

We got bored and went to the other side were the people actually go to hang around the beach and we were searching for starfish also known as a sea stars and we found a couple, well, maybe 6 but we didn’t get them all because they were wedged in rocks, then after that Daniel found a sea urchin which are rare around here, so we threw it in the bucket but then Daniel seen a thing on the ground a gross thing, it was a either a dead sea otter, or a baby seal ( I think it looked like a baby seal ) and it was inside out, gutted and no head with four leg bones sticking out. There were tiny crabs all over at it and Daniel started poking and I told him to put it back in the water with a stick but he didn’t want too so we left the mystery creature there.

I left my fish net on the ground and a kid picked it up like it was his and started using it. ( Apparently he was using it when we were observing the dead creature ) We told him it was ours and he said sorry and Daniel said he could continue using it but he has to give it back later and I was fine with that but he didn’t want too. He ran off with his little brother down the beach and then we walked to where those kids were going then we got on this conversation about how the area was good for skim boarding until the kid we seen earlier said, “Its over there”! He was pointing at the water and we came to the scene, and a fairly big crab was wondering around, a red rock crab to be precise, it was about five to six inches long and we grouped up with them to catch big crabs. There were a whole lot more big crabs, so we dumped the starfish down and got about 5 crabs and left since the kids had to go. I was thinking about eating them so me and Daniel ask if we can keep the 2 biggest and she said yes, even though she wasn’t big on the idea.

On the way back we got donuts and slushies and went home to cook the crabs. One of the two crabs looked very deranged. It had one very small claw and one HUGE claw but the other crab was stronger and a little bigger in size. We cooked them and Daniel said he never ate crab straight of the ocean, boiled and eat them like that so he was a little nervous. Then he tried it and said YUMMMM! The crab was delicious and made good feast. 

This ends my exploration post and I thank you for reading it! By the way, this picture up there is Kin beach, its part of the Air force beach way down of it.  

Photo by: sillyqwailo