Today what has impressed me is a website introducing #intertidalzone and lives on there in HK:
https://www.intertidalsafari.hk-sea.org/about-intertidal

Amazing! I got ideas where to explore now.😉

About Intertidal | 潮行 Intertidal Safari

潮間帶是陸地與海洋交匯的地方,退潮時出現,漲潮時淹沒。根據地表的性質,潮間帶可分為「軟灘」(如沙灘、泥灘)和「硬灘」(如岩岸、礫石灘)。 ​ 地表的差異,加上波浪作用、淡水注入和陽光曝曬,造就出多樣的潮間帶生境,亦為棲身於潮間帶的物種帶來考驗。當中的考驗包括鹽度、海浪的沖刷、長時間曝曬在陽光下而導致過熱和乾燥的風險,因此棲身潮間帶的生物要在行為和身體結構上做出各種適應,以作應對。

Intertidal Safari

#IntertidalZone during low tide.

Area was submerged during high tide, filling rock pools that do not drain during low tide.

#Coast

Photo credit: Andrew Diack, Geograph Britain and Ireland (East Dean and Friston, England).

The Lighthouse and Tidal Treasures

The tide was very far out when we visited Ballycotton last week, so I wandered out on the rocks, carefully avoiding the slippery seaweed, and took a few photos.

Apertureƒ/8CameraILCE-7RM5Focal length24mmISO320Shutter speed2.5s

#Ballycotton #BlarneyPhotographyClub #coastalPhotography #Cork #CountyCork #EastCork #intertidalZone #Ireland #IrishCoast #lighthouse #lighthouseIsland #marineLife #naturalBeauty #pebbles #Photo #Photography #rockyShore #seaweed #tidalPools #tidalZone

Crane fly on intertidal rock with barnacles and seaweed. And 11 legs. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/05/count-legs.html #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #IntertidalZone #Insects
Count the legs

Nature blog, focused on beaches, intertidal invertebrates, insects and spiders, birds, and plants of British Columbia, Canada.

Who knew sea slugs produced ink?!

#seaslugs #marinelife #intertidalzone #oceans #wildislands

Lifeless rock pools at Sawtell

After cyclone Alfred whipped up a 'bacteria smoothy' along Australia's east coast the sea foam then merged with a 'flush' from the suburbs. Dislodged smelly sponges at Sawtell beach made breathing and contact impossible. Even without fossil fueled disasters the intertidal zone at the north end of the beach is barren. The rock pools and crevices no longer house sea anemones, crabs, black nerites, limpets, sea stars, mulberry oyster borers, algae, sea anemones, sponges, tube worms, sea stars, oysters, and fish.

Still good enough for hosting 'sports' and advertising events amplified by megaphone so they can be heard at Lord Howe Island too.

#FossilFuels #disasters #runoff #eutrophication #Seafoam #pollution #Nocardiae #sewage #SewageTreatment #NSW #Sawtell #beach #EventSpace #erosion #IntertidalZone #MarineLife #loss #biodiversity