Bring Thisīring a bucket to study the animals, first aid kit, closed toed shoes, and sun protection. Don’t make their life harder! You are in their home. Remember that these organisms have an extreme environment where survival is difficult. Hold organisms in cupped hands and near the ground so they’re dropped, they won’t fall far. Handle with Care Periwinkles are common critters found in the rocky intertidal. The best way to prevent scrapes and bruises is to wear closed toed shoes, long pants, and use three points of contact to traverse the rocks. Scrapes from rocks should be rinsed, sanitized and covered. Bring a first aid kit and a water bottle. Also, carefully move over the wet rocks using hands and feet. Keep an eye on the sea and waves at all times. Check ahead at NOAA Tide Chart or download the app Tides Near Me. Tide pooling on the Seacoast is best at low tide when the rocks are exposed – we’ve got such dramatic tides around here. How to prepare for your adventure Check a Tide Chart This special ecosystem is a treasure of the Seacoast and should be treated with respect. It’s also a nursery to many commercial fishery animals like lobster, crabs, and shellfish. The organisms that live there have to survive intense daily fluctuations in temperature, water level, and exposure to the elements. The intertidal zone is the area between high and low tide. Children tide pooling at Gooches Beach in Kennebunk, Maine Background This is everything you need to know to have a positive experience in a Seacoast tide pool. Tide pooling on the Seacoast is amazing! We have access to rich diversity in our tide pools including snails, crabs, and sea stars. pooling is an amazing way to connect your child to a natural ecosystem where they can handle animals, explore, and discover. Reservations to enter the park are required, adults $4, ages 6-11 $2. Consider a visit the Seacoast Science Center, located at the park (open weekends, reserve tickets online at with touch tanks, aquariums, and interactive exhibits about New Hampshire’s coastline. Several trails crisscross the park leading into fields and forests, and around freshwater ponds and salt marshes. You’ll also see remnants of an ancient “drowned forest,” roots and stubs from trees some 3,500 years old or more sticking out of the water. Look for tiny sea creatures, including periwinkles, barnacles, minuscule lobsters, teeny shrimp, and a variety of crabs in the tide pools. One of the premier spots in the country for tide pooling, this 135-acre state park gem is the largest undeveloped stretch of shore along New Hampshire’s abbreviated coastline. From here you’ll also have views of the Fort Pickering Lighthouse. Look for seaweed, barnacles, crabs, and mollusks. Pebble Beach is the best for tide pooling, a small rocky shoreline with easy to explore pools. There’s a campground (one of the closest to Boston) and a boat launch, remnants of historic Fort Pickering (surrounded by a moat!), and three beaches. This beloved city park, a stop along the Salem Trolley Tour, has a lot going on (and going for it). Parking is $5 for Massachusetts residents, $20 for nonresidents. There are also trails through the adjacent Halibut Point Reservation ( with more tide pools to explore. Save time to walk the trails surrounding the historic Babson Farm Quarry, and out to shoreline lookouts. At low tide, seaweed drapes over exposed, wet rocks, and crabs, shrimp, barnacles, mollusks and other tidal critters shelter in pools. But kids will be more interested in the tide pools, where a variety of sea creatures lurk. On clear days, you’ll have sweeping, long-distance views, often of the Isle of Shoals, 20 miles or so away. The power of the sea is in full view at this park, hugging the jagged, rocky Atlantic coastline. Tip: Visit on a day when low tide occurs in the late afternoon, when many beachgoers head home, and parking is discounted. There are a limited number of nonresident parking spaces, $30 weekdays, $35 weekends and holidays, cash only. There are also great views out to sea and of the 1801 Annisquam Lighthouse. Go rock hopping along the shore, and peer into tide pools filled with sea creatures like hermit crabs, tiny shrimp, and snails. At low tide, the water retreats nearly a mile, exposing a long sandbar and jumbles of rocks that trap salty sea puddles. Erin Clark/Globe staffĭubbed Winga by locals, this popular beach is located at the western edge of the city along the Annisquam River and Ipswich Bay. Lily Germain, 3, sat in a tide pool while 9-year-old Margo Reinfeld played behind her.
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