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      • Pelagic
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      • Coastal Prairie
      • Coastal Scrub
      • Monterey Cypress Forest
      • Monterey Pine Forest
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    • Bird Island
    • Cabin
    • Carmelo Meadow
    • Coal Chute
    • Cypress Grove
    • Granite Point
    • Lace Lichen
    • Moss Cove
    • Mound Meadow
    • North Shore
    • Pine Ridge
    • Sand Hill
    • Sea Lion Point
    • South Plateau
    • South Shore
    • State Marine Reserve (SMR)
    • Whalers Knoll
  • Species
  • Geology
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Rocky Shore

Do you like sea spray and tide pools? Then the Rocky Shore is for you.

Rocky Shore

Some of the most exotic animals in the Reserve live here, like bat stars, anemones, sea urchins and hermit crabs. The landscape changes hourly with the tides.

Trails

Bird Island Trail

Coal Chute Trail

Granite Point Trail

Moss Cove Trail

North Shore Trail

Sand Hill Trail

Sea Lion Point Trail

South Shore Trail

Species

Several aggregating anemones clustered on a rocky tidepool surface, their tentacles spread open among small shells and bits of algae

Aggregating Anemone

Black-crowned night heron and chick

Black-crowned Night Heron

Bluff lettuce, a small succulent plant with red-edged green leaves grows from a crack in a rocky cliff near the coast, surrounded by pale gray stone.

Bluff Lettuce

harbor seal with speckled gray fur lifts its head above calm blue water, its round eyes and whiskers clearly visible as it swims near the surface.

Harbor Seal

Pelagic Cormorant in breeding plumage

Pelagic Cormorant

Videos

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Black Oystercatchers Off Cannery Point

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Como Explorar los Charcos de Marea con Seguridad

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Hermit Crabs

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How to Safely Explore Tidepools

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Intertidal Encounter with the Bat Star

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Ochre Sea Star at Whalers Cove

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Preparing to Explore Tidepools

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Purple Sea Urchins Part 1

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Purple Sea Urchins Part 2

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Tide Pool Etiquette

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What Causes Ocean Tides?

Point Lobos is a State Natural Reserve. Everything here is protected.

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