In my book A Very Typical Family, which is set in Santa Cruz, CA, an early draft had Kit visiting the tide pools, looking for amazing creatures.  Santa Cruz is a wonderful place to go see tide pool creatures. In this post, I’ll cover where to go, what to look for, and what to know.

Tide pools are also referred to as the intertidal zone, where rocky areas of mudstone are exposed during low tide and submerged at high tide, with varying depths of holes. The sea creatures who live in the intertidal ...