The trip to the Quinault coast was a real bonding experience for my classmates and I. I formed connections with people I hadn’t even spoken to before as we shared rooms, meals, and experiences. There were a few people in particular I spent quite a bit of time with and they were my collaboration group: Sequoia, Chloe, and Amanda. We called ourselves the Bodacious Bombastic Banana Slugs. On the trip, we studied some of the beaches in the area, focusing on Second Beach, Rialto Beach, and the tide pools and arch (called Hole in the Wall) at Rialto. In an effort to represent our sense of place along the Olympic Coast as a group, we were drawn toward the powerful forces of the ocean. Dynamic movement and change caused by the waves affected not only the smaller ecosystems we found along the beach but toward us as a group as well. The feeling of movement and change within the environment affected our sense of place in many different ways… it’s almost as if we are in a similar competitive environment as in the tight quarters of a tide pool. The waves affect our place just as much as the enemy’s competitive space. We’re fighting just as much to hold on, knowing that we have no control, but hoping we can adapt.