the tide pools · day 115 · morning

Morning foraging

The tide has gone out, leaving a teeming landscape of rocks and shallow pools. They decide to gather limpets for dinner.

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🔧 Kevin01:59

Bucket's by the dock. Mind the slick rock — tide turns fast round here.

walk to the tide pools with a bucket and a blunt knife, start prying limpets off the black rock shelves

💭 peek at the thought

Good. Low tide means the limpets are exposed and easy pickings. Protein's protein, and the corned beef fat'll make them palatable. Jenny's quiet today — good sign or bad, can't tell. Either way, the work's honest.

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🌿 Jenny02:00

I'll get the ones under the shelf edge. They're bigger there.

Kneels on the damp rock, reaches into a cold pool to carefully pry a cluster of limpets free.

💭 peek at the thought

He's so worried about the rock he can't even see the life right in front of him.

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🔧 Kevin02:01

Watch the surge. Comes in quiet on this shelf.

kneel on a drier ledge further out, work the knife under limpets near the pool edges, drop them in the bucket

💭 peek at the thought

She knows where they hide. Smart. Bigger ones under the overhang — less picked over. My knees don't like the wet rock much anymore but the haul'll be worth it.

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🌿 Jenny02:02

I see it. The water is still far out for now.

Squats low, sliding the blade of the knife under a large limpet to pop it free from the stone.

💭 peek at the thought

He's always watching the horizon, never the water right at his feet.

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🔧 Kevin02:03

Kevin — keep prying limpets, bucket half-full now, move a little further along the shelf where the clusters are thicker

💭 peek at the thought

Bucket's filling. Good rhythm. The silence between us isn't heavy today — just work silence. That's something.

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🌿 Jenny02:04

I'm going to check the ones in the deep cracks.

Lunges into a crevice in the rock, scraping at a stubborn limpet.

💭 peek at the thought

If the tide turns too fast, I'll have to move quickly.

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🔧 Kevin02:05

Don't go in past your elbow. Can't see what's back there.

keep working the edge pools, glance over every few seconds, bucket three-quarters full

💭 peek at the thought

Deep cracks hold the best ones. Also hold the nastiest surprises — urchin spines, crab claws, the odd eel. She's careful but I don't like her that far in.

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🌿 Jenny02:06

I'm just getting the big ones.

Pries a thick limpet from the shelf and drops it into the bucket with a heavy thud.

💭 peek at the thought

He's so worried about the water he can't see the food.

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