Looking in areas marked as tidal pools on maps, we were coming up empty for marine life, but traveling along Highway 101 near the coast we spotted huge fins in the ocean which turned out to be a pod of Orca whales migrating south. We pulled over to watch them and noticed a grouping of rocks in front of us where a large number of harbor seals were resting. To get a closer view of the seals, we scrambled over some rocks and ran smack into the most amazing tidal pool I have ever seen, filled with sea stars and anemones everywhere you looked.
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