My stomach was in turmoil thanks to an abundance of stress the weeks before leaving for a trip I had put together-a ten day sea-to-ski trip that would take five friends into the bays of Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska. It was a blast waiting for the waves to surge into the tight crevasses and then see the images on the LCD screen.Īfter a few images were captured at 24mm, I swapped lenses for Sony's 16-35mm f/2.8 and captured this vertical image going for an extreme field of view from just beyond my feet all the way up to the distant horizon:
#LA JOLLA TIDAL POOLS ISO#
With my ISO reduced to 50, I set my aperture anywhere between f/7.1 to it's max setting at f/22 and enjoyed the long multi second exposures I was seeking. Having the tidal pools to myself, I put my Sony a9ii on my Manfrotto tripod and began using Sony's 24-70 f/2.8 lens with Hoya's Solac 82mm 6 stop neutral density filter. I was also fortunate that a thin layer of clouds was above me with intermittent bursts of sunshine. Because the pools were mostly filled with water, no one was around. I returned at at +5' tide and found just what I wanted-a small swell sending in surges of water up the channels, splashing over bands of rock, and swirling around the pools. My wife was surprised that I didn't want to take my camera along for this outing, but, I explained that the number our tourists exploring the features, critters, and coves, along with the water moving around the rocks further away out-made me want to wait until the tide was high. For this, we ventured out at low tide and found all sorts of creatures to check out. The first trip to La Jolla's tidal pools was to share the marine wonders with my you niece. Watching the tidal charts for low and high tides both served to help time surf sessions, as well as when to visit the tidal pools. Having grown up surfing the cold water of Santa Cruz and the breaks south of San Francisco, I was in 7th heaven getting a few surf sessions in with a childhood friend. This past Thanksgiving I enjoyed a week along break from the mountains of Idaho while visiting family and friends just north of La Jolla, California. The kids can’t stop talking about their experience at the tide pools, we are planning to come back with some friends.Using Neutral Density Filters for long shutter exposures at tidal pools requires some planning, timing, and a bit of equipment. The rock formations there are very unique, there are some rocks covered with what seems like a carpet of seagrass, it’s amazing. The second and final stop in our tide pool exploration was Hospitals Break, it’s south of the Children’s Pool and it’s quite a big area for tide pools. We even saw one that was eating! It was moving his claws one after the other to his mouth!Īnother creature that you will probably see a lot are Sea Anemones, they are greenish inside and sometimes if they are curled you won’t notice them, they are brown and covered with shells on the outside. The first creatures we saw were crabs, they were everywhere and in lots of different sizes.
Once you get down to the beach you walk north until you see the rocks where the tide pools are located. I parked close to the entrance of Scripps Beach on La Jolla Shores Dr., just make sure to park where there isn’t time limit because you’ll spend a long time exploring and you don’t want to rush back! (It happened to us!!). That said, I decided to take them to Dike Rock first which is north of Scripps Pier. When you explore tide pools with kids you are probably going to discover more because kids are such experts to point out the best finds! Our adventure included two La Jolla Tide Pools: Dike Rock and Hospitals Break.
We recently visited the tide pools for the first time ever and now we are hooked! It’s so fun to go see sea creatures in their natural habitat. “Look here, look here! Come and see this Mami!” The kids usually shout excited looking at the marine life they find at the La Jolla tide pools.
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