Oystercatcher Tide Pools Book of nature

We can wrap this up, if you wish.

"Yup - that's the way they greet people," Wraen told and swiftly removed her paw from the crab, when it shook an angry claw in her direction as well. "Technically they are edible too, except there is so little flesh there that it is no point bothering them, unless you are really, really, really desperate. And you manage not to get pinched in the process. It can be quite painful," she watched the little animal scramble away. 

Then her gaze focussed at two distinct, roundish heads peeking out from the surface of the water. "I think that we are being observed," she told Chanel. "See those two guys? Seals. They are the wolves of water."

They spent the rest of the afternoon together and then returned home.