Our Top 10 Critters of the year!
Reflecting and rating 10 of our favorite critters we saw this year!
10. Northern Right Whales 🐋
Coming in last at No. 10 because only Capt. Mike Frees got to see these charismatic megafauna out of our crew.
9. Banded Tulip Sea Snail 🐌
Elegant, and colorful predator!
8. Marsh Hens (Clapper Rails) 🌾
We love them because sometimes they don’t realize that they are not hidden and they like to scream!
7. Limpets
Teeny tiny hardworking grazers. YES.
6.Capers Island Cottonmouth 🐍
Wildly missssssunderstood (get it??)
5. Sheepshead 🐟
Weird that they have human like teeth but cute weird?
4. Cownose Ray 🛼
Graceful, social, and derpy sea pancakes what’s not to love?
3. Diamondback Terrapin 🐢
They sometimes have mustaches on their beautiful, perfectly patterned for the saltmarsh faces.
2. Striped Nudibranch 🌈
This diva is a tiny underwater fashion icon.
1.Caribbean Spiny Lobsters 🦞
Coming in at first place, Caribbean Spiny Lobsters the cutest lil surprise bugs!!!