Tide Pool Time!

This afternoon was such a beautiful day, and low tide was in the middle of the afternoon, so my friends Laura and Kali and I walked the girls down to the beach to check out the tide pools. We saw countless anemones and a handful of sea stars. Not to mention all the rocks, shells, hermit crabs and, Apple's favorite, dogs (they were on the beach with their owners, not in the tide pools!) My theory that Rayley likes animals that are smaller than herself has some further evidence, as she loved to touch the creatures. Apple, on the other hand, my child who fed an alpaca out of her hand and begged to go into a corral with huge horses, wanted no part in touching them. I handed her a sea star and she threw it and then cried!