Belcarra, Təmtəmíxʷtən Beach
Our assignment was too write a journal page about what we saw at Belcarra/Təmtəmíxʷtən beach. I chose to write about Dungeness Crab, and some things I saw.
My Nature Journal
My nature journal is like a info graphic, but it is everything I learned about the Dungeness Crab. It’s about how to tell the gender of the crab, sizes of crabs, my experience with these crabs, and how we caught them. I hand drew all of the drawings, only looking off pictures I found on the internet.
We Caught Crabs
We caught crabs with a crab catcher. You lower the crab catcher down then wait for the crabs to come. We caught only Dungeness Crabs. They have to be 16 cm across, from one of their giant spikes to the other. Sadly, we did not catch any that were big enough.
Crab Gender
Have you ever wonder how you know the gender of the crabs. Well I learned how to. If you look at the bottom of the crabs there will be some shapes. For male crabs, there is a shape of a rocket, smaller then the females. The females have more of a be hive/wasp hive shape.
Misty Water
When the water is not clear, and more misty it means that the creatures are moving around. This makes it better to catch crabs because that means they are moving around.
Belcarra, Təmtəmíxʷtən Beach Renaming
The renaming happened because we wanted to recognize the ancestral home of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.
Indigenous name restored to popular Metro Vancouver park
Pronunciation of Təmtəmíxʷtən
Here is some help to pronounce Təmtəmíxʷtən(tum-tum-ee-hw-tun).