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Tide-Pool Plaza features three living tide pools where visitors can touch and learn about tide-pool animals with docents. Windows in the habitats provide up-close views of starfish, hermit crabs, sea cucumbers, lobsters, and other animals local to San Diego's tide pools. [12] The tide pool overlooks La Jolla and the Pacific Ocean.
The water temperature is often a little colder than the average San Diego beach. While the beach has only a small dry sand area at high tide, during very low tides, tide pools are revealed at the cove. California sea lions can be found in the waters of the cove and hauling out, temporarily leaving the water to rest on its beaches, cliffs, and ...
A tide pool in Porto Covo, west coast of Portugal. A tide pool or rock pool is a shallow pool of seawater that forms on the rocky intertidal shore. These pools typically range from a few inches to a few feet deep and a few feet across. [1] Many of these pools exist as separate bodies of water only at low tide, as seawater gets trapped when the ...
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times. Readers agreed with many of our picks for the 50 best beaches in Southern California. They also had some more to recommend, including Hermosa ...
Children's Pool Beach. Coordinates: 32.847638°N 117.278433°W. Children's Pool Beach (also known as Casa Beach) is a small sandy beach in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California. Aerial view of the pool, May 2011, with over 200 seals on the beach. The Children's Pool earned its name after the construction of a concrete breakwater in 1931.
Shell Beach is a small beach in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California, United States. It is accessed via a flight of concrete steps that start at the south end of Ellen Browning Scripps Park. [1] The beach is located immediately north of Children's Pool Beach, south of Boomer Beach and La Jolla Cove.
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, usually referred to as Cardiff, is a beach community in the incorporated city of Encinitas in San Diego County, California. The Pacific Ocean is to the west of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, the rest of incorporated Encinitas is to the east and north, and a beach and lagoon to the south. With a population of under 12,000, Cardiff-by ...
Swami's is an area in San Diego County that contains Swami's Beach and other local attractions. The beach, also known as "Swami’s Reef'" and "Swamis", is an internationally known surfing spot, a point break located in Encinitas, San Diego County, California. Swami's was named after Swami Paramahansa Yogananda, because the grounds and ...