#respectnature

What do you hear?

Who doesn't love tide pools... Better yet who doesn't love San Diego tide pools during the big big King Tides. During King Tide the tide is usually a negative tide and that means the water is low low. The best time for treasure hunting.

We love visiting the central California coast, we have a few secret spots we have found the best tide pools. We haven't really found anything as exciting in the so cal area, so this was a chance to see if so cal could measure up. And it definitely did not disappoint!

So many treasure's we haven't see before. Beginning with the brittle sea star, or brittle star fish. We saw 3 total with the one pictured above as the biggest one. A true delight was the rainbow star, that little booger was hiding in the grass but you can see the little speckled colors through the grass. Super fun!

Bat stars and abalone shells are always super fun. The pink furry looking thing is a nudibranch (type of sea slug) and that black blob with a shell stuck to is a keyhole limpet.

These tide pools are part of Cabrillo National Monument near Point Loma in San Diego.

This is a find, learn, and leave area as is all state and national parks. 

I’m out enjoying a storm.

It smells like wet pine and mud.

And the cicadas are screaming.

"Albero" / "Tree" © Virginia Mori

www.virginiamori.com

A big cat: oooh nooo, it's gonna eat me

A scary dog: oooh nooo, it's gonna eat me

A shark: oooh nooo, it's gonna eat me

A big spider: oooh nooo, it's gonna eat me

A mother fkn wendigo or some shit: oooh nooo, it's gonna eat me

Me:

Awe, cute Babies!!!!!!!

Hehe, my lack of fear of nature will never get me in trouble.

I ended up making this one my business card. No matter what minor changes I make to this photo I will never be able to capture it's beauty. No matter how good my camera is I will never be able to capture just how blue this glacier is and how it transitions into 3-4 different shades of blue.

It was such an amazing thing to get to personally see and it makes me sad to acknowledge that this will be something a younger generation will never get to see. Global warming and unchecked capitalism has taken so much from the world. And the irony of a photography studio saying that isn't lost on me.