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Lowell Point Tidepooling, 5/24/24

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

The next morning was a low tide so we got up and headed down to the beach! We found some beautiful starfish and saw some sea birds too! It was a little drizzly and cold, but not too bad! Enjoy these pics! ⭐️🌧️

Lowell Point, 5/23/24

Right after the girls finished school (literally their last day of school) we did a weekend trip to Seward. It was so fun and so beautiful! We rented a cute airbnb in Lowell Point for a couple nights, and it worked out great. We did lots of fun things on this trip so I'll split it up into a few different posts. First up, we drove down on Thursday afternoon, and after arriving we went straight to the beach and did a little tidepooling. It was a beautiful evening at the beach with sunshine and clear skies. ☀️🏔️

Olympic National Park Tidepooling, 6/21/23

Friday, November 8, 2024

Scott and I partially planned this trip around low tide so we could go tidepooling. I love starfish and Olympic National Park is one of the best places to see them! We went to Beach 4 and Ruby Beach, and they did not disappoint! We saw so many beautiful and colorful starfish, as well as many other cool intertidal life forms. It was a beautiful morning exploring the beach!

My favorite bunch of starfish 🤩 This pic and the next 17 are from Beach 4.

Tidepooling, 6/23/20

Monday, July 27, 2020

We finished up our Seward trip by going tide-pooling at Lowell Point State Recreation Site. We went early Tuesday morning during low tide and it was so fun! It was a little rainy, but we were prepared with all our rain gear so we had a great time! The girls loved looking for shells, pretty rocks, seaweed, and starfish! ⭐ Enjoy these pics!

Noelle is holding some seaweed here 💚

Bishop's Beach, 6/5/19

Monday, July 1, 2019

After spending some time at the end of the spit we drove to Bishop's Beach and spent about an hour or so there. It was a beautiful clear day, but kind of a lot of walking for the girls to get to the rocky tidepool areas. I was definitely glad we had Grandma and Grandpa's help with the girls. We ended up only finding one starfish, but we did get to see some bald eagles pretty close. They were eating these little fish that would kind of dig into the sand. It was really cool. After exploring the beach we then started our drive back home. We had a wonderful time in Homer. 😊

Homer Starfish, 6/5/19

One of the reasons we really wanted to go to Homer was to see the starfish. There was a disease a few years ago that pretty much killed all the starfish, but I had heard they started to recover this year so I really wanted to go and see them! I looked up when the negative tides were, and we planned this trip around it. After spending the night in the cabin we went out exploring the next morning before driving back home. Our first stop was the pier at the end of the spit. There were tons of starfish! It was so fun to see all of them! I was loving it. In hindsight I wish we would have spent longer here, because the next beach we went to we only found one starfish, but it was all good. We still had so much fun and couldn't have had a more beautiful day! 🌤

Love this one of Ruby holding this starfish 🌟

Bishop's Beach, 6/25/17

Friday, June 30, 2017

Before starting the long drive back home on Sunday we decided to stop at Bishop's Beach and explore the tidepools. It was a super low tide over the weekend and I was really looking forward to seeing some starfish! I saw lots of pics from last summer of tons of beautiful starfish. Unfortunately a lot of them died off this year, (see here) but we were lucky enough to see two! The baby one was especially cute. :) Poor little Noelle wasn't feeling very well so she wasn't too happy to be at the beach, but we still had a good time.