Starting in mid-April, low water times on the Oregon coast occur every month with the lowest minus tide occurring in mid-July. The best time to view intertidal creatures is close to the lowest tide. Plan your trip by using a site specific tide table. Tread carefully, exercise caution and let your eyes, camera and magnifying glass be your main tools for exploring these special seashore areas. These areas are endlessly interesting and can be explored without any special knowledge or equipment. Here there is a multitude of animals clinging to shear rock faces, waiting for the tide to reverse. Periods of minus tides also provides access to beaches, rocks and caves that are normally covered by water during other times of the year. Sea stars, barnacles, urchins, anemones, mussels and sea snails thrive in these little pools and one square foot may support thousand of these tenacious sea creatures. Unveiled at periods of low tides, tidepools are created when the tide goes out from rocky coastal areas, leaving water in crevices and holes and exposing a fascinating variety of life forms. This is a place of rich biological diversity and endless wonder. Nevertheless, the rocky Oregon coastline teems with life.
Plants and animals living along these shores have developed a unique niche, to withstand the environmental rigors at the edge of the sea where wind and water continually pounding at the rocks, these marine environments are submerged in water at high tide and exposed at low tide. The intertidal marine life found at the edge of the Pacific Ocean is one of the richest, most diverse habitats on Earth. The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean.Throughout the spring and summer season on the Oregon coast several periods of minus tides offer a small window of time to catch a glimpse of intertidal communities, to be dazzled by jewel-toned plants and animals and marvel at their very existence living on the edge. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.” The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.” The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?” As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. Whatever the tide, sneaker waves can still be a problem depending on your location, even during low water The best time to visit tide pools is during low tide.
Tide pools are fun to explore, and offer adults and kids an opportunity to experience marine ecosystems.
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