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The strand line, or the high tide mark as
some people might refer to it, is where the highest watermark
is on the shore. The animals living here have to be highly
adapted to this zone because they are out of the water for
the most of the day. They have to cope with extremes of hot
and cold weather and struggle with dangers of drying out or
sometimes being soaked by fresh water rainstorms.
The reddish or green-brown Sandhoppers
live beneath strand line rocks and under rotting seaweed,
they may be extremely numerous on sheltered shores such as
this one. The Sandhopper is abundant in the upper inter tidal,
in the wide tidal mouths of rivers and slightly saline waters.
If disturbed they escape rapidly by running and jumping. They
feed on dead seaweed.
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