We took a short vacation to San Diego this week. It was absolutely gorgeous out so we decided to stop by the Silver Strand State Beach to enjoy the ocean for a few hours. While we were walking the beach we noticed Sand Dollars all over. They are so cool looking we decided we wanted to find some whole ones to take home. We ended up spending hours looking for them while walking up and down the beach, it was so much fun!
Have you ever seen a sand dollar before? They are very fragile so it is rather difficult to find them in one piece. I guess they are also pretty rare and only found in certain areas. Lucky for us Silver Strand state beach is one of those areas!
We spent hours searching for them and found 10 that were still whole. We found all different sizes and a few different colors. I know its hard to tell from these pictures but they are many different colors. Some are black, some are purple and the rest are off white colors.
The term sand dollar refers to species of extremely flattened, burrowing sea urchins belonging to the order Clypeasteroida.
This is me on the on the Silver Strand beach!
This one has a shell sticking out of it! It is crazy looking.
These were the ones we decided to take home with us.
All n all this was probably the best time we had out of our entire vacation, and it was totally free! So like I always say, "the best things in life are always free, so stop existing and start living!" ;)
"Peace, love and all that hippie shit"