JOYCE, Clallam County On a cloudy summer morning, a gray whale and her calf cruise around the small bay to the west of Tongue Point, spouting every few minutes, just a few dozen yards offshore. Two instructors with the Olympic Park Institute are at the Tongue Point tide pools with three families on the last day of a weeklong field course.
By Jim Downing | August 26, 2004
ToursFor guided tours of the pools, you can contact Port Angeles-based Olympic Park Institute, which runs weekend and weeklong courses for school groups and families. Olympic Park Institute site or 800-775-3720.
Field guides
A good tide-pool field guide can help you figure out what you're looking at. These three get excellent reviews:
"The Beachcomber's Guide to Seashore Life in the Pacific Northwest" by J. Duane Sept. Harbour Publishing, 1999
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