tide pooling finally!

Ahoy,

I've only been asking for forever to go tide pooling. We all know how annoying I can be. It's best for everybody that we finally made the trip. We went to Palos Verdes, over some super windy roads through what I'm told is a super swanky neighborhood, flanked by a Trump golf course. The road emerged onto a cliff overlooking the beach, look for the sign for Abalone Cove Shoreline Park. The hike down is pretty easy, and we went exploring upstream a dry riverbed. You should too, but don't try to climb up the canyons because the substrate is super crumbly.

There was tons of wildlife that day. Urchins and anemones everywhere, a few stars, a bunch of  crabs. It's important to be careful where you step because a) it may be slippery, and b) you might be stepping on an organism. I've also learned that you can look but shouldn't touch. This is a real life habitat and home for all these creatures and I wouldn't like people coming to bother me at my home. Living in an intertidal zone is stressful enough without humans messing everything up. We even saw a baby seal that approached the shore. It probably got lost/separated from his family. 

Low tide was around 3pm, and we arrived a little before so the tide started to come up halfway through our session. No one got dunked that day. We walked back to dry land to check out this cove at the bottom of the cliff. People had been going back and forth across, but it looked like the tide had come up so you were more than likely to get splashed had you made the trip across again.

This is a super fun place to tide pool. A says the last place he went to had fewer specimens to look at. Also, he likes to drive fast on the windy roads next to the ocean. Afterwards we went to 85 degrees bakery and totally spoiled our dinner without any thought to the matter. We are just such good adults.

middingly toiled,
jt