Tulalip Beach
5:03:00 PM
We braved the cold and the wind to go to Tulalip Beach today. It was beautiful and dreamy and everything you imagine a good pier to be. I think that I could have easily spent the day catching crabs just to see Zane's amazement with every single one. You would turn over a rock and hundreds of tiny crabs would go scuttling in all directions, looking like a flurry of sand turning over.
He even thought the seashells were worth more than his graham cracker, and let's be honest, to a one year old, that is quite the mid-life crisis. He wanted to touch every single shell, crab, rock, and stick he found. I figured that you go to the beach to get sandy, so why not? Someone brought a jeweler's loop, so we got to look at all of the seashells and crabs through it and it was amazing! Minuscule dots on rocks turned out to be slugs. Crabs had the most intricate textures and coloring to their shells. Everything was so incredibly beautiful when you looked at it up close. Every spot was seen with a new perspective and I wished Zane had been just a little bit older to understand how to look through the lens.
Tulalip is not a 'build a sandcastle beach,' more of an 'explore the wildlife, pick up countless shells, walk along the pier' beach. It did have a nice picnic area and playground for the kids, but I don't see us going back unless it's to do exactly what we did on a cold and stormy day.
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