Critters, Creatures, and Kelp A Guide to Life in the Edmonds Underwater Park

by Dan Clements

The Edmonds Underwater Park is a special place. Discover a beautiful world where fish live up to 80 years, clams over 150 years, and anemone up to 200 years. Share a world with jelly fish longer than whales, populated with sea creatures who look like they were colored by Van Gogh. Learn about how the Park came into being, and the individual responsible for its development. This is a world class facility in our back yards.

The book contains a brief history of the Park, a generalized map of the trail system, followed by photos and information of some 140 marine mammals, fish, marine invertebrates, and plants that call the Park home.

135 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Xine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finally! Now i know what's down there!

This elegantly written, good humored book is full of gorgeous photographs. Some pictures look like science specimens, but some are intimate portraits of the creatures that call the Puget Sound home. Especially striking to me was picture of the Heart Cockle, Clinocardium nuttalli. How can a photographer capture the personality of a bivalve in such an intimate portrait? Yet it is so.