My Wanderings 2022 - On my Walk - Low Tide Brings Sea Treasures

Sea Star

Low tide always brings sea life closer to viewing pleasure.  This week I poked, explored and got wet as looked for treasures.....

Part of my pledge to myself this year was to learn new things and have new experiences.  I'm trying to learn more about the plant life and animals I'm seeing.  I have identified what I can, now I will check some resources and work on figuring out some of the others.

Turban snail

Sea urchin

Sea Star

Kelp

 Snail

Sea anemone

Sea Star

Strawberry anemone

Sea Star

Crab and limpets

Natures planter :)

Sea grape

Sea lettuce and sea grape (sea sac)

Sea anemone on post holding wharf

Goose neck barnacle

Purple Sea Urchin

Chiton

Mussels and strawberry anemone

Limpet

Anemone

I'm still working on learning the processes of making videos.  This one is all the treasures of the sea I have spotted during low tide.

 

My Wanderings 2022 - On my Walk - Through the Magic Carpet in Pacific Grove, California

Before Phil and I ever moved here, we admired the beauty of Pacific Grove.  We would look at the images of the pinkish/purple magic carpet online, dreaming of living here. Not a day goes by that I don't enjoy and feel grateful for the beauty around me.  It has helped me cope with losing Phil.  Each one of my walks is filled with the love and memories that he left me.

 

"In 1943, living in a tiny cabin overlooking Pacific Grove’s Lovers Point, gardener and self-styled adventurer Hayes Perkins (1874–1964) began to clear a poison oak-covered ocean bluff in Pacific Grove.  Perkins’s hand-water the coastal bluff with a mix of shrubs and South African drosanthemum floribundum, a succulent of the ice plant variety. Over 14 years he single-handedly created a nearly one-mile-long pathway into a dazzling springtime carpet of fluorescent-purple blooms, a floral “Magic Carpet”. Named Perkins Park in 1950, the garden plays an important role in the town’s appeal as a resort destination."

I'm still working on my video skills.   Having fun and I have a lot to learn!!!!!