Perhaps it is because of it's relative shallowness, or simply abundance of food for the organisms. Despite the human impact, of course the organisms must live in the cove if that is where their sources of energy are most easily attained. It might have been easier to be more exact if there was an identical cove on the far side of the creek opposite this one, but even as it is, the knowledge gained continues to disprove our hypothesis just like the rest of our data. To sum it all up, it seems to us that these organisms are self-serving and independent creatures. If their ideal habitat for survival happens to be within easy reach of the carelessness of human beings, it doesn't particularly matter.
Observation is the whole idea of our project.
We had some difficulty after our data collecting was over in remembering just exactly where we saw something. Be sure to take good notes. One of the major flaws in our project, as mentioned before, was that the site we chose had banks which differed far more than we first supposed. Perhaps you can't find any site along the entire creek with banks more similar than the one we chose. However if you do, be sure to study that one.