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La Jolla pronounced La Hoya is on the west coast of Southern California in San Diego County. We are lucky to have such wonderful tide pools. La Jolla has seven miles of them to explore. The water is so clear! In the shot below the darker area of the picture is actually water!
These shots are taken just south of La Jolla Cove also known as Seal Beach or the Children’s Pool.
The green building on the point is the start of the Children’s Pool. Let’s go there!
The Children’s pool is closed and roped off from December 15 – May 15 giving the seals the beach to have their pups.
Here are the tiny pools up close, interesting don’t you think?
Another shot..
The rest of the time you are allowed to swim and lounge at this wonderful beach and on both sides there are tide pools to check out.
When to go tide pooling in San Diego?
We see the best time for tide pooling is through October to March. The moon’s gravitational pull on the Earth makes the lower tides fall during the daylight hours.
We have two high tides and two low tides per day.
At this beach and tide pools you can expect to see sea anemones and crabs.
We finally made it past that green building to the beach. It was a wonderful walk.
At this time of year the seals do not go onto the sandy beach but stay mostly to an island off the coast. Some fish and lounge on the rock outcroppings near. Look closely and you can see them below.
Here is another shot.
I plan on visiting all of the tide pools in La Jolla this winter! Hope you all have enjoyed this tiny tour.
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Thank you Anaya!
great
What a fantastic place! Your descriptions really bring photos to life. I was walking with you 🙂
Thank you, thats exactly what I am trying to do. It works! Much appreciated.
🙂 🙂
Aah! So soothing to mythic, aquatic creatures such as interstellar siluriforme. Reminds me of the levitating mercury pools on home sweet Tethys. Sweet swim!
Thank you fishy!
No dear, I thank you. Right up my “swimscape”.
A charming seaside tour! Seeing from your beautiful photos, the area looks so bright and open. I only see a few trees around the hotel, in the sense in my eyes the sun is very hot (that’s in my country), is that so?
We live in a sub arid place here Albert. The coast has no trees on the beach, but start 1/4 of a block from it.
What is the degree of celcius temperature there in such conditions? In my place, the condition could be more than 25 degrees!
In the winter it can snow, in the summer it can reach over 100 degrees.
Ouch…! Thanks, Kim!
I have to say you have a wonderful eye capturing images. I also have to say the initial pictures look like some huge dinosaur left their footprints.
Amazing!
Thank you Doc, I had thought so as well. This is actually lava, must of been cooling fast!
And I guess it was underwater..Giving the time it occurred.
Amazing landscape and gorgeous captures!
Thanks Ellie!!!
Good Show Kim.
Thank you Kenneth!
Great place,love it!
Thanks Carmen!
Great job
Thank you!
My blogging friend went here whenever she can, and talked about this tide pools on her blogs. I would love to have a visit. My son currently lives in Santa Clarita, so I think it would be a nice weekend trip when I go to visit him.
I can sure see why she wrote about them. I want to see all of them now. 7 miles worth of tide pools. I can’t wait. Santa Clarita is very close. I would shoot over to the 15 to come down, and leave the 5 to the traffic. Few hours and youd be here.
Is this near where you live or you’re just on vacation there Kim?
By the way lovely photos you captured Kim! I forgot to mention that in the last comment.
La Jolla is about a 40 minutes drive south of where I live, and I appreciate the compliment. I try to get out every chance I get as the wolf needs to run, that is how all this (sharing pictures and blogging) started. My walks with the pack.
You’re welcome Kim!
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Thanks Hamza!
Your welcome?
Love the photos, my Aunt is not to far from La Jolla, I need to take Little Miss to the beaches their if her Mother will let me Lol!
Thank you Michelle. You do need to, she would love to see all the different sights, and stuff. Wild animal park is near too, its fun and the animals are very happy. Its just a short drive I’m sure she’d let you!!
Great post and nice photos!
Thanks a bunch Mom!
yeah, la jolla is a nice area. the seals are cute. i hope they are protected.
It is illegal to bother them in any way. : )
Nice!
Thanks Georgi!
What a fantastic place! Your descriptions really bring the photos to life. While I love your pics, if I had to forego either them or your words, I’d stick with your vivid prose! (Don’t take that as a negative in any way – it’s a double positive 😉 )
In your first sentence you answered my first question when I saw the title of the piece – the pronunciation. But do you happen to know what ‘jolla’ means in Spanish?
lol thank you Norman. That is a super great compliment, taken the right way. (grins) ty ty ty. Is this going to be on your quiz? lol I got your answer, in spanish it means The jewel, but they don’t know if it was named after the spanish meaning or if it was already named La Jolla by the Native American, which has a different meaning. It means hole in the mountians.
That’s intriguing! I just checked my ‘Placenames of the Word” book, but it doesn’t have an entry there :/ No, this won’t be in Part 2 of the Spanish words quiz, but you may have inspired me to make another ‘Meaning of Placenames’ one 🙂
Sounds great!
Enjoyed the pictures! Thank you for sharing them.
Thank you Edith, much obliged!
I love these shots Kim. It was if I was there! Beautiful! I always enjoy looking through your eyes.
I love them! I’d love to return to California and see everything in a nice normal, slow touristy way! Every time we go out there, we’ve only had a couple of days to be there and it was full of seeing family out there!
So you need to take a trip just for you! Come visit the sights!! Thanks for the compliment Leslie!!
Omg! Words cannot express how wonderful the pictures are.
Thank you Gina!!! You compliments are always appreciated.