November 5, 2025
The cosmic and oceanic phenomena that is King Tide is a special time to look at tidepools because the tides are at extreme lows (and highs), so viewing of the ocean floor tidepools is possible by us land walkers only a few times a year. This is because the moon must have the following two spatial characteristics for the 'king tide' (just meaning extreme tides) - either full or new and is in orbit the closest it will ever get to the earth.
On our first day of viewing the tide pools at low tide at Pleasure Point, students found many hermit crabs. We had a shorter day here due to the days rain.
Day 2 we found a Nudebranch, spider crab, plenty more hermit crabs, and sunburst anenomes of course.
Hiltoni Nudebranch
Great Egret
Community coming together over shared love for special natural phenomena and animals
Moving seagrass around is most of the work of tidepooling!
Animals identified: Great Egret, Hermit crab, Hiltoni Nudebranch, Spider Crab, Sunburst anenome, Pelican
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