The intricacies of a sand dollar...good heavens!😮 And did you know they have little "teeth-like" bits inside? I don't think they're actual teeth...help me out biology/science peeps!

#beachcombing #sanddollars #floridawritinglife

A few photos from today's visit to #DashPointWA in #FederalWay. My wife and I caught an unexpected low tide during our visit and mostly just walked on the beach.

I've never seen this many #SandDollars in Washington before, there were thousands of them! Only seen that before in Oregon. Had to be careful where we stepped at some points. Two pictures here to demonstrate it, since the zoomed-out one doesn't really do it justice. Each of those dark lines is a sand dollar.

#awalkaday #pnw #beaches

A rainy visit to #DashPoint today, greeting the #fungi, #sanddollars, trees and #mosses. Love where I live.

#pnw #dashpointstatepark #dashpointwa #mosstodon #lichensubscribe #nature #awalkaday

#Sanddollars (also known as sea cookies or snapper biscuits in New Zealand and Brazil, or pansy shells in South Africa) are species of flat, burrowing sea urchins belonging to the order Clypeasteroida. Some species within the order,