Tides and Trails

Today a man hurried toward the Haystack Rock Awareness Program (HRAP) truck to tell us he'd "found a stingray." Maybe a bat ray? Or a...

The first sea slug I saw at the ocean's edge was an opalescent nudibranch, Hermissenda crassicornis. I have since spotted many nudibranch...

I found this three-level limpet world adrift in the current, like a planet that had escaped its star. The larger limpet has smaller...

Like most schoolkids, I learned that starfish regenerate arms. Recently I read that a severed arm of some species of starfish (or sea...

“It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again.” —John Steinbeck Tidepooling at night is...

There are few tidepool creatures more otherworldly than the alabaster nudibranch, Dirona albolineata. Today I watched an alabaster turn...

Today I collected an intact but dead sea nettle jelly, Chrysaora fuscescens, about one mile north of Haystack. The nematocysts of sea...