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East Coast Roadtrip: Day 9

Route: Kouchibouguac National Park

Today we decided to explore the Park and check out the beach! (Noticing a theme here?)

These are baby eels!!! MILLIONS of them. It was SO cool to watch them from the bridge.
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Pic is a bit blurry, I zoomed in as far as I could – this is one of the seals from the colony that lives on the beach. We watched them play and hunt all day, it was awesome when they came closer to shore to check us out. They stayed far enough away that neither of us was worried. We’d picked up some binoculars which made watching them a lot easier.
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Hello!seal2

More eels:
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This shrimp decided to hitch a ride!
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Of course we caught our fair share of hermit crabs 🙂
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This is a Moon Snail, they can get HUGE.
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Teeny starfish!
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Moon snail… kinda gross, actually.
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It took us a few hours to walk to this boat. We were so curious to see the inside… until…
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SURPRISE! Naked guy. yeah, he was chatty, we were not. k-boat2
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