Tide-walking, anyone? Lowest tides of the month, today/tomorrow

| Seen at sea | West Seattle beaches

Beach Drive Blog reminds us that the lowest tides of the month are here. And they bottom out today and tomorrow – 1:11 pm today, 1:58 pm tomorrow.

Jersey Jill April 27, 2009 (8:51 am)

Everyone when you are enjoying the low tides please remember to respect all the sea life that is living in these tide pools,under rocks, shells, logs etc. IF you turn something over to look for treasures please also turn it back over when you are done, to protect whatever was hiding under it. Let’s respect these fragil creatures and keep our shorline healthy.

herongrrrl April 27, 2009 (9:07 am)

Thank you, Jersey Jill! It is astonishing how much damage is done when rocks, etc. are left turned over to expose the animals hiding beneath.

And please remember not to relocate critters on the beach–they know exactly where they need to be. Leave your buckets and shovels at home unless you’re building a sandcastle, and enjoy watching the critters do what they do without disturbing them.

rykrite April 27, 2009 (9:22 am)

Thanks WSB for this update! When I pick up my kindergartener after school I think we’ll walk to Constellation Park – the tide will be in a bit but she won’t care. On days like this I think “the aquarium has nothing on our beach!”
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I think that the best way to teach children how to care about our earth is to let them experience it hands on like this. A gentle one finger touch on an anenome, holding a tiny tickling crab for a moment, shouting “I found a moon snail!” and trying to figure out what are eggs and what is slime…. We’ll leave it as we found it, but we will leave slightly changed, as it always happens that way. No book could make me fall in love with our beaches and their creatures the way that a hands-on low tide can. (We’ll look stuff up in our book when we get home, anyway.)