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Real Sandpiper Point
Sandpiper Point is made up, but the animals and plants around it are real. Each page says what the real ones do, where they live, and which stories use them.
- Sea otters and kelpRafts, kelp wraps and a forest under the waves.
- Hermit crab shellsWhy a hermit crab needs a new shell, and what happens next.
- Porcupine quillsWhat quills are, what they do, and where real porcupines live.
- TidepoolsPools left by the tide, and why low tide is the time to look.
- Shorebirds and crabsPelicans, herons, sanderlings, sand crabs and shore crabs.
- Canyon plantsSage scrub, sycamores and oaks of a Southern California canyon.
Looking at the whole place instead? See the Sandpiper Point map.