Tidepool Saturdays

The last few weekends we have been blessed with some gorgeous weather, which has been nice since we've had some rain and cooler days during the week. Low tide happened to be during the afternoon last Saturday, so we headed over to Maeda to walk around the tide pools and see what we would find. We hadn't really been tide pooling since we moved here, but had snorkeled here at pretty low tide and had a great time so knew there would be some fun stuff to see.

 We walked way out to where the waves break (which seems like a weird thing to say, but it is several hundred yards here). I'm used to waves breaking on the beach, but because of the reef structure, they break what seems like way out in the ocean!

 Most of the deeper pools are full of these amazing bright blue fish. The water is so clear that it feels like you're looking into an aquarium. So fun!

Our favorite find of the day was this red 6-legged starfish! It was such a bright color and Rowan was definitely intrigued by it.

 After we walked around for awhile, we just hung out and enjoyed our lunch and the sand.  Love our little family days at the beach :)

 We had so much fun that we decided to go again this past Saturday. Again, our favorite finds were the starfish...this time they were blue :)

 It was a gorgeous sunny day and gave us the chance to get out and walk around for awhile.

We decided to drive to another beach for sunset and on the drive over, Rowan had quite the blowout (his first one in a quite awhile and probably due to the fact that he ate handfuls of mud that morning)...
As to not miss the sunset, I stripped him down and washed his bum off in the water while Grant set up his camera, and then Grant held him while taking pics and I got a new diaper and clothes from the car. Having a kid makes things so much more interesting :) And we wouldn't change a thing!