Tide Pool!

Tide Pool! Atl'ka7tsem/Howe Sound

Tide Pool!

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I float with my facemask and snorkel in a shoreline tide pool, and find, to my delight, it is crammed with extraordinary life.

Mussels on a rock underwater
Face to face with mussels, I can see seawater being drawn in and expelled
Snorkeler floating over sea life
I love tide pools because you are in the ocean but it is perfectly still
Seaweed and algae in tide pool
The many colours of the algae in the tide pool just astound me.
Sea lemon nudibranch
A sea lemon nudibranch or sea slug grazes for algae amid the mussels
Bob photographing tide pool underwater
Protected from the ocean swell, the water is clear and I can steady myself for close up photography