Tide pools of Carmel Beach.

Visiting Carmel-by-the-Sea and exploring one of the best beaches in central California.
The town is is located near Monterey and it is famous for art galleries, fine restaurants and an old Spanish Mission. However, the real reason why people like to live here or come to visit is the ocean and a beach, which is a real gem.
The beach It has clean, extremely bright, almost white sand. The sand consists of fine grains. It feels smooth and gentle to the touch. People like to boogie board here and hangout with their friends including four-legged ones which are welcome here. Due to their energy, dogs make this place much more dynamic.
Let’s get to those rocks on the south corner of the beach! They are covered with various algae and marine invertebrate animals - mollusks, barnacles, sea starts. Exciting! Let’s take a closer look.
The first thing we noticed is the abundance of huge owl limpets with tiny limpets on the top. The small mollusks tend to hang on to the same carrier shell, where they leave the round marks called bases. They return to their bases after cleaning the back of the giant to entrench themselves and rest until the end of the low tide.
The reddish cone-shaped structures are red thatchet barnacle. They are often called volcano barnacles due to an obvious resemblance to volcanoes. The animal inside the shell has its head attached to the bottom and extends its legs, which are called cirri, to grab food particles floating around and bring them to its mouth. Do not try THAT at home!
There are lots and lots of anemones that covered themselves with protective incrustations made of the gravel and bits of shells. Ochre sea stars are common in the tide pools of California. The color can be orange, purple or brown. They prey on mussels, barnacles, chitons, limpets, and sea urchins.
The sea stars move using so called tube feet which are also instrumental in opening shells of bivalve mollusks. The multiple tube feet take turns in applying force to the shell. Such team work helps them to win in this deadly tug of war game by tiring out the mollusk.
Just imagine - these limpets lived on this rock for 5, may be even 10 years, grazing algae from the same spot night after night. It’s their home. So, please, do not disturb them.
I want to come back in few years and see them again, only a bit larger.
Operculum is like a door for the shell of a gastropod mollusk. This is a cool find - a red abalone shell with a purple sea urchin inside. Unfortunately, the shell was already inhabited by a bunch of tiny animals and we had to leave it under the rock. Trust me - the best trophies you can bring home are videos and photographs of live animals not smelly shells or parts of dead bodies. Overcoming your primeval hunter-gatherer instincts can be rewarding making us more civilized human beings, I believe.
In places like this, the shells of gastropod mollusks are rarely empty. They get quickly occupied by the hermit crabs that have to constantly look for new shells to fit their growing bodies.
Once in town, do not forget to visit a few art galleries. The street names, for some reason, are painted on vertical wooden boards from top to bottom. It’s a bit confusing and inconvenient but also original. There are no numbers on the houses, by the way.
Oh, if you plan to wear high-heeled shoes, make sure to get a free permit from City Hall (a fun souvenir to have), thanks to an unusual law from nineteen twenties, long before Clint Eastwood become the city mayor. During his short 2-year term, he helped to overturn another rule prohibiting eating ice cream on the streets of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Thanks for watching and good luck!
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[@KpopN_AZN]

Love that area. Don't think ever been to Carmel Beach... been to every other beach in the area though. Such beauty.

[@2dhivya]

Very informative! good job :)

[@BearSF]

Thank you, Dhivya!!!

[@davidgough7549]

another great episode.. I once did a school report mapping the movements of tagged limpets..so much going on in the intertidal! even tidepool humor: eating like a barnacle? "don't try this at home" lol

[@BearSF]

Thanks for the comment!. I'm glad you liked it.

[@BigbubenChannel]

Very very good!

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[@nigelkavanagh2048]

And good luck too you miss!! Well done.

[@BearSF]

Thanks again!!!

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More :d

[@sacramentolynnie]

When was this filmed? 2018?

[@BearSF]

Hi! It was early July 2018.

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