Dana Point Tidepools - June 19

We are camped on the street outside of Karen and Rick's house this week, giving us lots of time with these friends and offering us a local base to see others. We are so lucky to have friends who are flexible and accommodating! Bonus is the leftovers from Karen's catering business!

Wednesday we explored Dana Point Headlands Conservation Area and its tidepools.

The cliffs don't look like they can withstand anything since they look to be only a composite of rocks and sand.

But we were surprised to see it was more like cement. However, I would not trust it for this.

Cheryl loves tidepools and was happy to find this piece of tube snail colony,

and anemones,

and a muscle cuddling with a chiton,

and gooseneck barnacles

 and lots of crabs.

We also saw lots of other cool things such as this driftwood structure

and pelicans flying over

and lots of rocks

including this which was bored by piddock clams.

 Then there were the flowers.

Just a beautiful place on a beautiful day.