July 15, 2015 Drive to Rialto Beach- Hole in the Wall and tidal pools

Wednesday, July 15, 2015 Drive to Rialto Beach- Hole in the Wall and tidal pools

We were up and out the door by 545 am.  As we were almost to the beach we had to stop.  A car in front of us had stopped for a herd of elk maybe a dozen ranging from big too little.  Didn’t expect that but they crossed the road and headed into the woods.  I did manage to get a picture of the end of the group.

 

We made it to the beach and started 1.5 mile hike to the rock.  The tide was going out and we started to look at the rocks that were starting to show.   We started to find starfish on every rock.  We finally got to the rock.   We climbed over wet rocks to find some tidal pools with some cool sea life in them.  I was a little disappointed and thrilled at the same time.  We found some large green anemones, sea cucumbers, 5 different colors of starfish, snails, rough keyhole limpet, gooseneck barnacles and chitons.  These were not in the same pool but here and there.  All in all it was a good morning adventure.  We managed to get in a 3.5 mile walk in.

We stayed around the camp doing odd jobs for tomorrow we head towards Seattle, WA tomorrow morning. During our stay here Max has made a new friend--a horse.  The horse is in a area right next to the campground.  She sees him and gallops over to touch noses with him.  Really cute.

Our campsites

Tail end of the herd of elk

This is the beach --we walked all the way to those rocks

Look closely I see 6 starfish here

Green anemone

Sea cucumbers

the Hole in the Wall

Rough Keyhole Limpet and a chiton

Large things are Chitons and just below them is a gooseneck barnacles

Snails

Some type of barnacle- thatch maybe

Max and his new friend