One of the best parts of living in Northern California is the vicinity to the ocean and aquatic life. One of my favorite things to do, is to visit tide pools ... what we affectionately call tide pooling.
Tide pools are areas of rocks by the ocean filled with seawater. They are visible at low tide, and home to starfish, crabs, sea anemones and other bottom living sea life.
During our visit to Mendocino, we took the boys tide pool exploring. After breakfast on our second day we headed to
MacKerricher State Park with the purpose of visiting the tide pools. However, the tide pools were closed as MacKerricher is also a habitat for baby seals. Two had been born recently, and an additional forty were expected soon.
We hiked along the coastal park hoping to spot a baby seal, but alas had no luck. It is a beautiful park with breathtaking scenery, which we enjoyed visiting ... so we weren't that disappointed. Still by this point we really did want to find some tide pools.
Next stop was
Glass Beach which also happens to be part of MacKerricher State Park (just separately accessible). The beach is made up of small pieces of glass, smoothed and washed ashore. It also has some splendid tied pools.
There the boys scurried among the rocks to see what animal life they could find. Mainly small fish, sea anemones and small crabs. It was great fun, and a wonderful way to spend a morning.
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