Carmet Beach Tide-pooling
Carmet Beach If you enjoy marine habitats and are looking for a great place to tide-pool, then you should visit Bodega Bay. Bodega Bay is on the coast of the northern California. Bodega Bay consists of a shallow, rocky inlet of the Pacific Ocean. The bay is used for many reasons because of its marine habitat. For example it's useful for its navigation, recreation, and commercial and sport fishing include shellfish harvesting. Bodega Bay has a series of beaches that are separated by rock bluffs and headlands. Carmet beach is one that I personally enjoy visiting. It is a narrow roc ky beach that is part of the Sonoma Coast State Park. The beach is right along Highway 1, the parking lot has two steep trails that drop down to the beach on both sides. The southern cove is the widest and sandiest, while the Northern cove extends north along a narrow boulder-filled shoreline. On my latest visit to Carmet Beach on March 7th 2017, I encountered a couple of new specie...