The color pink abounds in the tidepools. Much of it is coralline algae, a type of red algae that flourishes in marine environments around the world. Coralline algae gets its name and rock-hard texture from calcareous deposits in its cells. Having this hard shell makes it an unappetizing food for…
Volunteer naturalist Linda Barre reports: The other day, the high school students I was leading on a tidepool tour found a red octopus in a surge channel. It slid under a rock to hide. I gently put the tip of my bamboo chopstick pointer near where the octopus vanished to…
Volunteer naturalist Julie B. Walters spent part of her weekend helping our new class of volunteers learn about the inhabitants of the floating docks in Pillar Point Harbor, and was rewarded with an encounter with TWO of these beautiful nudibranchs.