We arrived to the tiny parking lot of Endert’s Beach around 7:45AM with high hopes to get good timing for low tide.
This beach is located The walk down to the beach is a little over half a mile long one way. Slightly downhill the entire way, then right back up the way you came.
The whole walk there follows the coastal cliffside, a constant teaser of the beach paired with a nice soundtrack of roaring waves.
“Only the toughest plants can endure the harsh environment along this coast. Salt spray and winds suck moisture from vegetation as effectively as a desert breeze. Sitka spruce, red alder, and other salt-tolerant trees survive on the bluffs because they can withstand the drying effect of ocean sprays. These tenacious survivors absorb the briny winds and provide a protective “buffer” for salt-sensitive redwoods in inland valleys.”
“Science fiction comes to life in a tidepool. Walking along the coast at low tide, you might at first miss the incredible variety of organisms that make their home here. Stop, scan the rock walls and quiet pools, and you will begin to see things move. Formed in rocky depressions, tidepools retain enough water at low tide to shelter an abundance of marine life: snails, urchins, anemones, crabs, sea stars, nudibranchs, limpets, seaweeds, and many others.”
Talk about cute rock heaven.
This was my first time really interacting with actual anemones outside of an official pay-for-a-ticket aquarium. Look at them! They look like big versions of the spiky neon spike earrings that Hot Topic used to sell.
And allllll the starfish! I die.
I could spend forever staring at all of them just doing their thing as the waves pull in and out.
It’s funny how quickly time passes out on those beaches when you have them completely to yourself. The only thing that shakes me back to reality is realizing how sore my neck is from constantly looking down at the rocks haha
Little snake skeleton. RIP buddy
The fog was so dense this morning and left a constant microlayer of water on everything. Normally I’d be kinda bummed to have weather like that every single morning, but when you’re in the redwoods it just fits.
This vault toilet was like a 7/10, in case you were wondering. 😉
Endert’s Beach via NPS:
https://www.nps.gov/places/endertsbeach.htm
Caitlyn is outside. 
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