I'm from the Midwest and we don't have such wonderful and amazing things. The Great Lakes don't have tides. I have been to Florida several times and NEVER got to experience tide pools. I could seriously walk along the beach forever during low tide and poke around in all these little pools. By poke I really mean poke, give this girl a stick and I WILL poke damn near everything living in the little pool just to see what it will do! Chef doesn't understand my fascination with tide pool, heck he grew up going to the beach and experiencing these wonders. This is all new to me. He got the biggest kick out of my first experience with tide pools. I loved the fact that he knew what all the little creatures were. I was like a three year old with all my questions about why, how, and what it this!
There is this AMAZING state park and beach just south of Seattle that we have gone to a couple times now. We had no idea what we were going to experience the first time we camped there. In the morning we got up to go see what the beach looked like at low tide and discovered that the WHOLE beach was COVERED in sand dollars!! You literally couldn't walk without stepping on a sand dollar. There were dollars the size of you hand to teeny tiny ones smaller then your pinkie toe nail. I tried to take pictures of this amazingness but they just don't seem to ever turn out well nor do the experience justice. We had been lucky enough to go and experience the beach two years in a row. It however doesn't look as though a third year is going to be possible :(
Click to enlarge the picture...and imagine the whole beach that full!!!
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Not sure what a tide pool is but we have sand dollars here in FL... they are rare to stumble upon and usually are not found on the beach unless it is broken but out on the sand bars you see them whole... It is illegal to take them out of the water here...
Tide pools are the water and little creatures that are left in the pockets in rock or low lying areas when the tide goes out. It's really amazing what can get stuck in them...fish, starfish, sea urchins, etc...they are amazing. We were able to take the dead sand dollars but left the living ones(which there were tons of).
This is so very beautiful. Seattle is my next "dream spot" to live since I've done the Wild West and you just helped sell it even more!
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