Wading adventures offer live treasures
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A female broken-back shrimp is loaded with eggs that will hatch soon. These shrimp are found in the shallow water off Ponce de Leon Park in the sea grass.
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Frank Walker is a volunteer with CHEC and helps with the sea grass wading adventures.
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Monica Dorken, center, runs the wading tours for CHEC. Here she is showing Marsha Grant, left, and Dianne Hermann, right, some of the creatures they scooped up in their net.
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A moon snail, or catÂ’s eye, is just one of the many things you can find in the waters off Ponce de Leon Park in Punta Gorda.
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A nice sized hermit crab was found during the wading tour on Dec. 6 at Ponce de Leon Park.
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A bucket full of live treasure was found in the shallow water off Ponce de Leon Park on Dec 6. Some of the treasures included moon and periwinkle snails; broken-back and grass shrimp; spider, hermit, fiddler and blue crabs; and puffer, pipe and flounder fish.
By JOAN KEENEY
Correspondent
Y ou may not know it by looking out at the water off Ponce de Leon Park, but there is a whole community of sea life living in the shallow water sea grass. On Dec. 6, Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center held one of its wading adventure tours. These educational tours are held at 9:30 a.m. on Thursdays.
The tour starts under the pavilion, where participants are given a booklet that explains what they might find hiding in the sea grass and a dip net to collect the treasures in the water.
