Category: Logs and Narratives
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One Tide Pool
Like any other “seek and find” hobby (bird watching, fossil hunting, coin collecting, etc), tide pooling often feels like you hit the jackpot or you’re wasting your time. While it might seem like I only ever hit jackpots, remember I chose what I share on this blog. I just don’t write often about times I…
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Welcome back and Summer 2025 Tide Pooling Logs
Hello everybody!! Welcome back to the Tide Is Out. Thanks to everyone for your patience this summer as I took a little break to work on other projects, do a ton of traveling and of course, go tide pooling! I’ve got some great resources coming up, along with logs of our trips over the past…
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Tide Pooling Log: Birthday Nature Walk along the Beach
On the morning of my birthday late this summer, I wanted to go to the beach– of course! The tide was somewhere between 1 and 2 feet, so I didn’t expect to do much tide pooling, if any of the rocks would evening be exposed at this location in SoCal. Despite this, I thought we…
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Tide Pooling Log: Nudibranchs and Tunicates at Dawn
The lowest low tides come in cycles as many days in a row boast negative tides impacted by the moon’s orbit. If you’re familiar with the way the moon impacts the tides, this makes sense. For tidepoolers, these cycles encourage us to be on the coast every day, sometimes for almost a week straight. This…
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Tide Pooling Log: Kayaking Southern California’s Mudflats
Not all intertidal landscapes are as beautiful to explore as rocky shores. Some require a little more extra —- and a willingness to get dirty. After several days of visiting rocky and sandy shores, I decided to take advantage of the low morning tides by exploring a muddy shore in an estuarine environment. Because the…
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Tide Pooling Log: Orange County Eelgrass beds Before Dawn
Most of my tide pooling as a kid was on rocky shores where it’s easy to spot animals and there is an abundance of life. But recently, I’ve been educating myself about sandy and muddy shores and finally got a chance to visit a sandy beach with sevearl eelgrass beds during an excellent low tide…
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Tide Pooling Log: Pre-Dawn Summer Low Tide in Orange County
Pre-dawn summer low tides are some of the best of the year in Southern California. You can avoid the crowds and the heat while getting the warm water summer species during an excellent low tide. I took advantage of several of the low tides in June this year. Check out this article from my trip…
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I Went to the Intertidal During a “High” Low Tide; Here’s What I Found
During the lowest of low daytime tides, you’ll find hordes of people at popular tide-pooling locations. Everyone knows that you have to visit during the lowest tides to see the best stuff, right? Well, kinda. For the intertidal enthusiast, visiting during the lowest tides is the only way you might see the rare low intertidal…
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Tide Pooling Log: Ventura County in Early June
Summer in California brings extremely low tides, but only in the very early hours of the morning. While not great for sleep schedules, these tides offer a great opportunity to see nocturnal animals you won’t see during the day and a chance to visit the intertidal without the crowds that daytime low tides bring. I…
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Tide Pooling Log: Napili, Maui, HI, Day 2
Day one implies day two, right? If you haven’t read the first tide pooling log about our finds in the intertidal in Hawaii this fall, check out this article before reading on. The finds the night before had been so great that we just had to go back out on the rocks again. It was…
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The Tidepooler is a blog focused on education and information about the tide pools and rocky shore environments along the coasts of the world’s oceans. With more understanding and enthusiasm, these important ecosystems can be sustainably explored for science, curiosity, and appreciation of their beauty.
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