The left picture was taken in Olympic National Park, WA. Tide pools present the perfect opportunity for people to easily observe ocean lives. Tide pools are pockets of saltwater left behind during a low tide, filled with a wide variety of marine animals and seaweed. This makes tide pools the best natural classroom for studying sea lives such as snails, barnacles, mussels, sea anemones, sea stars, crustaceans, seaweed, and small fish. Many marine creatures will also be trapped in these small basins. During the low tides, these tide pools are filled with seawater that gets trapped as the tide recedes. Tide pools can be found in depressions along the shoreline of rocky coasts. You may find tide pool creatures unique to the local seacoastĪ tide pool is an isolated pocket of seawater found in the ocean’s intertidal zone.Look at tide pool seawater under a microscope.How do these ocean creatures live in a tide pool?.But – an incredibly nice lady will wash and fold a week’s worth of your entire family’s dirty, disgusting laundry for less than $10. PS For all of the folks who were concerned that Mexico would cure my migraines and I would want to stay here forever and ever – no such luck. And of course – William is hoping for snakes – lots and lots of terrifying snake encounters. I know that the jungle will hold new adventures and blessings for our family. It is going to be hard to say good-bye to the beach tomorrow morning, but we are off to the jungle. The beach is very good for knitting and thinking and praying. I have sat very still and watched the waves and seen crabs scurry out of their hiding places at dusk. We have built sea castles, sand turtles, fortresses, and rock walls. Jack has walked miles and miles or should I say kilometers and kilometers up and down the beach collecting sea glass and other cool items. Jason has spent most of his week patiently following William around from tide pool to tide pool as they have searched for sea creatures together. What is so funny about this – is I thought William’s heart was racing because he was scared, but his heart was racing because he was so excited! Of course – my heart was racing, because I was scared. William has a great eye for spotting sea life. It was an eel, and later that evening William spotted a second eel in another tide pool. Upon further investigation it wasn’t a sea snake, but it was close. “Jason,” I said with what can only be described as terror in my voice, “William, thinks he has seen a sea snake!” To which I thought – “Oh please no! Not that!” I did believe William, because I could feel his heart racing through his little chest.
I have loved watching Jack and William delight in the ocean and its creatures and creations.ĭuring our first evening on the beach William exclaimed to me – “Mommy, I just saw a sea snake.”
Each trip to the beach has brought new discoveries and adventures. After all, we had planned to get wet at the beach so we didn’t let a little or in this case a lot of rain ruin our plans to play on the beach.īefore our first evening was over William and Jack had discovered their favorite tide pool for exploring, and we have returned there over and over again. The boys took it all in stride, and we were able to get out to the beach at least twice every day in spite of the less than ideal conditions. And Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.”Īs soon as we arrived at the beach so did a tropical something or other which meant we had four gray days of rain, thunderstorms, crashing waves, blowing winds, and more rain.
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