Oystercatcher Tide Pools Book of nature

"Let's find one first," Wraen smiled at Chanel, glad for her company and feeling even happier for her eagerness to learn. This made her excited too and helped to forget the chaos back home. She searched the sand first, until she uncovered a half-shell left from an oyster or whatever those soft-fleshed beasts were called. "What you have to look for is something like this," she pushed the object towards the aspiring scout for closer inspection. "Except the good stuff is sandviched between two of these."

They were lucky that the tide was low at the moment - the five large, but shallow pools were filled with ice-cold water and tons of debris that needed to be sorted through. To test the depth of the pool, Wraen stepped inside one, shivered a little, but continued to walk, scanning the surface of the water carefully. At one point she dove and brought up a mesh of sea-weeds and pieces of wood. With this in tow she walked back to the sand and shook the prize vigilantly, then sniffed out the contents. Nothing. "So - basically - you can go and check any of the remaining pools," she instructed Chanel, "and see, if you can find those clam-things."

"If you do - we can figure out, how to open them up together," she said and returned to the pool she had inspected earlier.