High tide brought many wonderful things, like sea urchins and tiny fish to the tide pools of Glorall, and I simply could not pass up the opportunity to watch how they all came together in their minuscule environments. I have become very smart to avoid the jellyfish that sometimes wash up, having been stung once and the only way to take the pain away from a jellyfish sting is to apparently get peed on. I would rather not have to go through that again, it was highly embarrassing and not to mention that wolf urine is very strong smelling. I never really expected to have to actually go through that...so I would rather not have to ever again.

My navy blues widen as I come across a rather large tide pool, and marvel at the life teeming within it. There are what I call sea-flowers, little animals that look like plants that - when you get close to them - suck back into their coral like stems and hide! I watch small orange, black and white fish swim in and out of these sea-flowers and wonder just how they got there. Tiny silver minnows move about in the pool, and there are the spiny bodies of sea urchins as well, so much life in one area! I grin as a crab moves by, watching him burrow into the sand a little ways away from the pool, and my stomach gives a small growl. I have watched the sea birds eat these creatures, but I will not be doing so today. I watched one get his leg caught in a claw of a crab, and the thing wouldn't let him go for half the day! I suppose it is better to learn both by yourself and through others, I certainly seem to learn more about what creatures to avoid by watching the adults and other animals deal with the nasty ones.

Today I am only learning, not partaking in the wonder of sea life. I look on as a seal comes to shore, its round body no doubt more graceful underwater than it ever would be on land. Such a creature should have developed gills and just stayed in the water, coming to shore makes no sense when one really thinks about it. I move down the white sandy beach of my home, my white paws getting doused every now and then by the salt water of the ocean, and I cannot help but to think what a wonderful place this is. It is now that I come upon a large grouping of rocks, and I leap up, jumping in a practiced manner from rock to rock until I make my way to the highest one, which also happens to go out into the water.

I stand and watch as a large black mass moves before me, white spots on the sides of what can only be a head making the massive creature more apparent. I tilt my white head, watching curiously as it moves closer to shore and then away. Sitting, I wait, and suddenly there is a rush of action in the shallows as a large, thin, black thing comes out of the water and moves toward the seal on shore. Too late, the seal begins to amble away, its uncoordinated movements on land making it easier for the large black thing to snatch it right off the beach. My eyes go wide and my jaw drops as I stare in disbelief at what just happened. Suddenly I am rethinking sitting on this rock, and so - as the great black monster moves away from the shore - I move toward the beach. I go the opposite way of the monster, my body shaking with fear, as I leap down to land on sand.

Well, I didn't actually land on sand. I landed on something soft though, and squishy, and moving! I yelp and jump off the moving thing, looking back only to realize it was a massive seal! And now it was angry! With me! I watch as the giant ambles toward me, faster than I thought it could move, and I yelp as it lashes out at me. My body twists away instinctively and I am bolting away from the massive animal of fat and skin, my long legs making me virtually fly over the compact sand of the warf line. I make it back to the tidal pool, looking down and realizing there are scarier things out there than jellyfish and sea urchins. I decide to stay here, where I know the black thing can't reach, and the giant seal cannot come because it is too fat and too lazy to come here. My heart is still racing as I look for anyone to tell about my eventful couple of hours. I want very badly to learn of the sea, but I am afraid if monsters like that can live there, I do not want to go into it!