I’m very jealous of every other coastal state’s tidepooling game. I went down a Google rabbit hole about them and that, my friends, is how we landed here: Hammonasset Beach State Park. Interestingly, it’s Connecticut’s longest uninterrupted stretch of shoreline.

When we arrived, it was really foggy and threatening rain. It was moody and we could see nothing, and it reminded me of a Something Corporate song. I had zero expections for this place and was pleasantly surprised by the fun we had in this relaxing atmosphere.

The areas in and around the boulders are absolutely covered in shells. The whole area is a fun, slippery, algae-covered boulder playground. We separated from each other and explored at our own pace which I love. I swear my boyfriend goes faster than me just so he can sneak into all of my pictures haha.

There’s also a little trail by the beach that leads to a boardwalk overlook where the viewfinder is. The parking lot for this area is right at the Meig’s Point Nature Center so we checked out their peregrine falcon live cam and several rooms of animals divided by category before heading back (in the pouring rain) to the car for the final push back home.

It was a 4.5 hour drive back to Baltimore from there and I probably deserved 5 million foot massages after all the driving I’d done through Vermont the four days before this. It was so. much. fun.