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What Tide Pools Taught Me About Life
One of the great vacations my family took when I was a kid was a road trip down the Oregon coast and into Northern California.
I was 12 years old when we hitched up our tent trailer to our minivan, pulled out of our driveway in Edmonton, Alberta, and headed for the US border, making our way through Montana before snaking our way up the Columbia River Gorge toward the coast.
That trip was the beginning of what has become a life long love affair with Oregon, and particularly the coast, a place I find to be filled with magic, energy, and inspiration.
I’ve returned a handful of times since that first trip, and each time end up discovering new places and walking away feeling renewed.
While I don’t remember many specifics from that trip, there’s one memory — and some advice from a park ranger — that I recall every time I return. In fact, the advice has become a practice I apply increasingly in the rest of my life as well.
Science(ish)!
If you’ve never gone tide pooling, you’re missing out.
(It’s possible you’re not missing out and that I’m just a nature nerd, but for now, let’s just compromise and say that I am a nature nerd and you also are missing out, cool?)
