Yesterday we visited San Pedro - home of Mike Watt, home of shipping containers. It's a long drive. We left the car at White Point Park and walked down a steep paved road to Royal Palms State Beach.
PC likes tidepools, so we went for the tidepools.
I've come to enjoy them too. We were minimally invasive. I did turn over a few rocks to inspire the hermit crabs to take walks. There were tiny hermits - easy to miss if you don't know to look.
I also poked a sea urchin, but only because I thought it was a pretty rock. It was covered in little shells and it felt like a ball.
It will be good if we remember to bring the real camera when we do these things. These are iPhone photos, and they don't tell you much. But you can probably see that there was a cat on that rock. There were lots of cats, but cats don't like water. I counted eight and then stopped counting.