Laguna Point is about fifteen minutes up the old Haul Road from camp, and at a negative low tide it turns into the best classroom on this coast. The water pulls right back off a wide rocky bench and leaves pool after pool of it behind, and there is a great deal more living in there than anybody expects.
We’ll work the pools from the high zone down, which is the order the tide leaves them in, and everything gets a name as we go. Anemones, hermit crabs, limpets, turban snails, rock crabs, bat stars, and chitons that have sat in the same spot for thirty years. Get your eyes down close to the water and the whole thing changes scale on you.
There are usually harbor seals out on the offshore rocks, and sea lions and otters turn up along this coast as well, though they move around with the weather and the season so nobody can promise you any of them. Same with the birds, which on a good morning means gulls, cormorants, pelicans, oystercatchers and a great many ravens.
Nothing goes home from this one. Everything goes back exactly where it came from, which is the only rule out there. It’s a lovely hour and a half, it’s good for all ages, and if you’d rather take something back for the table, that’s the Intertidal Forage.
When we go
Low tide sets the time, so it moves around. Here is every day we can get out on the rocks between now and the end of the booking window.
| Day | Meet at camp |
|---|---|
| November | |
| Thu 5 | 1:35 pm |
| Fri 6 | 2:20 pm |
| Sat 7 | 3:02 pm |
| Sun 8 | 3:41 pm |
| Mon 9 | 4:19 pm |
| Tue 10 | 4:56 pm |
| Wed 11 | 5:33 pm |
| Sat 21 | 1:42 pm |
| Sun 22 | 2:26 pm |
| Mon 23 | 3:12 pm |
| Wed 25 | 4:46 pm |
| December | |
| Fri 4 | 1:22 pm |
| Sat 5 | 2:07 pm |
| Sun 6 | 2:48 pm |
| Mon 7 | 3:27 pm |
| Tue 8 | 4:04 pm |
| Wed 9 | 4:41 pm |
| Thu 10 | 5:16 pm |
| Fri 11 | 5:52 pm |
| Sat 19 | 12:29 pm |
| Sun 20 | 1:20 pm |
| Mon 21 | 2:09 pm |
| Tue 22 | 2:58 pm |
| Wed 23 | 3:47 pm |
| January | |
| Sun 3 | 1:49 pm |
| Mon 4 | 2:32 pm |
| Tue 5 | 3:11 pm |
| Wed 6 | 3:48 pm |
| Thu 7 | 4:22 pm |
| Fri 8 | 4:54 pm |
| Sat 9 | 5:25 pm |
| Sun 10 | 5:54 pm |
| Sun 17 | 11:59 am |
| Mon 18 | 12:59 pm |
| Tue 19 | 1:53 pm |
| Wed 20 | 2:44 pm |
| Thu 21 | 3:33 pm |
| Fri 22 | 4:18 pm |
| Sat 23 | 5:00 pm |
| Sun 24 | 5:41 pm |
| Sun 31 | 12:33 pm |
| February | |
| Mon 1 | 1:25 pm |
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