Alicia Salazar - Blog post 2

 This week we took the train from Nice to Cagnes Sur Mer. Cagnes Sur Mer is home to a habitat known as an estuary. An estuary is an area where freshwater and seawater connect. In the case of the estuary we visited in Cagnes Sur Mer the freshwater is meeting the Mediterranean from the river called Le Loup. This kind of habitat is very important to the local epifauna as well as the infauna. While there we saw many types of fowl (not all water fowl) and fish dipping their heads into the substrate in order to feed upon those infauna. My favorite was the pigeon that I did not get a picture of, but I did see a swan.



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