Tide Pools in Vancouver?

[Delphinus]

Whytecliff and Lighthouse Parks are some favourite spots of mine. I can't remember offhand how you get to the water though, at Lighthouse, you kinda need to scramble down the rocks, do you not? But the whole park makes for a really pleasant walk and is not long of a hike. Your kids will love it (look for banana slugs along the way to the lighthouse )

Whytecliff is a very popular spot for divers, so is fun sitting at that little rocky beach watching the divers coming in or going out. I don't remember seeing too many tidepools but there must be good ones there at low tide.

http://tides.gc.ca/eng/station?sid=7735

[gregzz4]

White Cliff Park, W.Van
Keith Park, N.Van
Deep Cove, N.Van

[kien]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! We ended up spending the morning at Centennial beach. Wow, we LOVED that beach. Very family friendly with a playground, clean posh bathrooms, a cafe. Kids had so much fun.





Lots of tide pools to frolic in. As suggested, we grabbed some cheap water shoes at Walmart for everyone and set out to find critters. In the various pools.







My son was able to find and catch quite a few local critters ranging from crabs, tiny fish, hermit crabs and even a couple of flounders (I think?).







I didn't think that we'd be there that long but they didn't want to leave so we ended up meeting up with Seahorse Fanatic and his family there for a BBQ lunch on the beach.



Good times and great eats! Thanks again man! :-)

[Dive_dry]

the first fish is a starry eye flounder the one in the cup looks like a rock sole

[lastlight]

That looks way better than the swimmer's itch and minnows me and the kids caught his summer at the lake lol.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Originally Posted by kien

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! We ended up spending the morning at Centennial beach. Wow, we LOVED that beach. Very family friendly with a playground, clean posh bathrooms, a cafe. Kids had so much fun.

I didn't think that we'd be there that long but they didn't want to leave so we ended up meeting up with Seahorse Fanatic and his family there for a BBQ lunch on the beach.



Good times and great eats! Thanks again man! :-)

You are MOST WELCOME my friend. Any time.

Anthony

[kien]

Once again, thanks for the suggestions. This morning we headed up to Whytecliff Park. Another awesome place that my kids absolutely loved!







The park was quite different from the beach and tide pools that we went to yesterday (at Centennial) but that was perfectly fine by us. There were plenty of things to discover with the turn of each rock.



And boy were there a lot of rocks to turn



It was also a very nice area to hike and picnic. I also wished that I had brought my bike. So jealous of all the cyclists whipping through the park. Next time!



There actually were a few tide pools here as well.









So ya, the kids had so much fun here that it was virtually impossible for me to peel them away from the park. As a result I ended up getting to the frag meet much later than I had originally planned.



Wish we had time to check out all those other places that were suggested. I suppose this means we will have to do a longer visit next time. :-)