
Wrack Community | Explore Beaches
No plants or seaweeds can grow in the unstable, wavewashed sand of the beach; so, beach animals rely largely upon sources of food, like wrack, that drift onto shore from other ecosystems. Wrack feeds many creatures that live on and in the sand, and these creatures in turn provide a food source for other animals such as birds. In essence, wrack provides one of the two major foundations of the ...