The Tide Pool at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve
On a fog-laced morning in Moss Beach, California, a kindergarten class crouches around a tide pool at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. Their teacher points to a...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 104:24-34, 35b.
On a fog-laced morning in Moss Beach, California, a kindergarten class crouches around a tide pool at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. Their teacher points to a purple sea urchin, and twenty small voices gasp. Then someone spots an ochre sea star. Then a hermit crab shuffling between anemones. Then a sculpin darting beneath a curtain of kelp. Every few seconds, another creature reveals itself in that single pool no wider than a bathtub.…
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