Ride Share for tidepool collecting during minus tides in the future.

[AquaticEngineer]

NEXT TRIP INFO:


Sunday July 3rd:

Oceanside, OR

Low tide: 8:49 AM -1.3

Sunrise: 5:32 AM

So it would probably be the same sort of deal as the last few trips. Gotta get out of town by 4 am to get there at sunrise and then we'd have about 3 solid hours of outgoing tides.


The Rally point for the meeting in the morning on Sunday July 3rd will be the Safeway parking lot off of 185th

There is a gas station, Jack in the Box and a Sharis there in case we want to get anything before we leave.

Address for Safeway is:

2177 Northwest 185th., Hillsboro, OR

From there we can all carpool in my Jeep or with whoever has room and wants to drive. I have room for me plus 3, and a trailer to haul any gear you want to bring.

All you need to do is contribute on gas to whoever you ride with so it all evens out for everyone :D

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I thought I would throw out this idea for anyone who may in the future want to go with me when I go tidepool collecting.

I figure we all have access to the tide tables and know when good times to go would be, so I'll work on posting up times of minus tides and locations of where I'll be going and when. That way there will be multiple times so it can work around peoples lives and schedules.

So if you want to plan to come with me and share on gas, or are thinking about starting a coldwater tank just post up in here and get it going :D

[Nate]

I may be interested just for the heck of it, and maybe help you stock your tank. I dont have a temperate tank but i'm kinda like a giant 8 year old when it comes to catching critters lol. I think my 7 year old would like it too.

[Rick]

You almost have me tempted to tear my reef apart and turn it into a coldwater system.

[pnkrcklives]

I am down to go some time I love tidepooling. And once I get this 75 build finished I will do a coldwater garage tank.

[AquaticEngineer]

I may be interested just for the heck of it, and maybe help you stock your tank. I dont have a temperate tank but i'm kinda like a giant 8 year old when it comes to catching critters lol. I think my 7 year old would like it too.

See thats the kinda think I was hoping for. I'm the same way when it comes to the tide pools and I just want to have people that are equally excited when I find something cool. You can only legally take 10 things per person, per day. So with more people going we can make the most out of the minus tides during our trips :D


You almost have me tempted to tear my reef apart and turn it into a coldwater system.

Muuuuuuhhaahahhah, come over to the Dark Side (devil) Its nice and cool this time of year.

[fpd4308]

If you would just give me that lobster tank you are selling I would go with you. I would even drive, pay for gas and buy lunch....ahahahahah.

After going to the aquarium this month I am Seriously considering adding a cold water system to my home.

Doug

[Emerald525]

Doug if you ever get a chance to see Steve Weast's cold water system in person you would want one for sure.

[Rick]

........

After going to the aquarium this month I am Seriously considering adding a cold water system to my home.

Doug
That's what really has me thinking. I was just there yesterday. Gonna post some pics later.

[AquaticEngineer]

I am down to go some time I love tidepooling. And once I get this 75 build finished I will do a coldwater garage tank.


If you would just give me that lobster tank you are selling I would go with you. I would even drive, pay for gas and buy lunch....ahahahahah.

After going to the aquarium this month I am Seriously considering adding a cold water system to my home.

Doug

Hey let me know when your ready, I'll keep an eye out for a deal on a lobster tank for you guys (rock2)

[AquaticEngineer]

Doug if you ever get a chance to see Steve Weast's cold water system in person you would want one for sure.

Thats exactly what made me want to do a large display tank in my house :D

[Emerald525]

I never knew a coldwater tank could have that kind of color! Pretty cool boxfish in the display too! :)

[Electrokate]

I'd go. I like to try out different temperate macros, which nearly always fail but something always takes, and I miss my sea gooseberries (:. Also need a bunch of tiny snail shells for an experiment, and some time on the beach. Kinda hoping to not do this til after this spell of nasty inclement weather passes, if that ever happens!
Kate

[AquaticEngineer]

I have a ton of snail shells, they aren't really "tiny" though. If you want em they are yours, my starfish go through about a 1 lb a month. I think they are about an inch around each.

[AquaticEngineer]

Wanted to give a heads up to anyone wanting to go tide pooling.

I have 1 more seat available in my Jeep for the my collecting trip on the Wednesday April 20th. We will be leaving the Portland area around 5am so that we can be near Oceanside by about 7am. Low point for the tide that day is at 9:15 so we should have a good solid 2hrs of the outgoing lowest tides to collect in.

[AquaticEngineer]

Looks like the next tidepool excursion will be Sunday June 5th.

We will be going to the same spot as last time on exposed rocks near Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanside.

There is a low tide of -1.0 at 9:52 am.

Sunrise is at 5:28 AM.

Drunkreefer and myself are planning on leaving town again around 4 am so that we can be there at sunrise and make the most of the outgoing tide until 9:52 am.

If anyone is interested in hitching a ride to go with us, or meeting us there, let me know :D

[pnkrcklives]

Yeah a day that I can actually dont work. Let me check my calander. I would love to go. I will shoot you a PM later tonight or just give you a call.

[AquaticEngineer]

Yeah a day that I can actually dont work. Let me check my calander. I would love to go. I will shoot you a PM later tonight or just give you a call.

Sweet dude :) We need to get you a cold tank soon ;)

[pnkrcklives]

True this I need a tank in my garage!!!

[AquaticEngineer]

Does anyone know where to get a cast net, or a throw net, or if you have either of those let me know. I want to try and get some free swimming fish for my tank to go with the rock sculpins I have right now who stay near the bottom. The tank needs more movement.

I think I'm going to go pick up one of those fine mesh trout nets also since my dip net didn't hold up quite so well last time.

[AquaticEngineer]

Looks like all sun and no rain this sunday for the collecting trip :D

[pnkrcklives]

WAAA WHOOOO!! CANT WAIT!!

[AquaticEngineer]

Hey guys, I think I'm going to bring my trailer with me to haul all the gear in this time. We were getting pretty tight on space last time with just 3 guys. This way we can throw all the wet stuff back there also and we can keep just the livestock in the coolers and buckets with the air running to them in the rear hatch.

Also provides more room for coolers with beer if needed ;)

[pnkrcklives]

Sounds like a good plan.... I was thinking the same thing.

[AquaticEngineer]

Update with pics :D
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Caught me a nice sized Kelp greenling, he didnt make it to the tank though ;) Strangely enough I did not know that their meat was blue before you cook it.
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This was all that was left, lol
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[reef165]

That first round tidepool is sick!!! It musta had some goodies in it!! What else did you get?

[pnkrcklives]

Sweet that was a fun trip!!! How did the other creatures we collected fair. Ie the Surf smelt?

[AquaticEngineer]

Maybe Josh and Taylor can add on to this with either stories from the trip, or if you guys remember what stuff we broought back.

[AquaticEngineer]

That first round tidepool is sick!!! It musta had some goodies in it!! What else did you get? Yeah we forgot to take pics last time when it was like 15-20ft deep, but a lot of sand has been pushed in and it filled up quite a bit. Still like 10 feet deep though. Only place we found purple urchins on the whole trip.


Sweet that was a fun trip!!! How did the other creatures we collected fair. Ie the Surf smelt?

Surf smelt went to Josh's tank and its doing great. He did lose one small green sculpin into the skimmer and it got chewed by the pump, lol.

I moved all my ochre stars into the other tank so that I could put more tube worms into the dislpay and not have them get eaten.

Josh took home a bunch of the green anemones we had at my house yesterday so his tank should be looking baller right now.

But everything else we brought back so far is alive as far as I can see.

What all did we bring back?

Aggregating anemones
Some really cool red algae with feather type leaves.
Limpets
Lined Chitons
Mossy Chitons
hermit crabs
some small 6 legged stars (gray and pink mostly)
tube worms
orange hydroids
Several colors of sculpins (Green, Coralline pink spotted, brown/red)
2 very small clingfish ( one red, one yellow)
a 3" cling fish that is yellow with very tiny red dots
porcelin crabs
Red kelp crab
a coupling small sand burrowing crabs that are white with crazy lines on the shell
I grabbed some orange sponge and a few chunks of some strange encrusting stoney coral.

what else?

[pnkrcklives]

Brought back a Couple surf smelt(well only one since the other jumped) And a confused look on my face after talking to the police(inside joke). All in all it was an amazing trip. Cant wait for the next one.

[AquaticEngineer]

LOL (laugh)


I dont feel like taking on all four of you boys, so you guys keep an eye on the this one here.....he aint in his right mind today

[APESHYT]

And a confused look on my face after talking to the police(inside joke). And why didn't I hear about this part of the trip?

[drunkreefer]

yeah all my fish are doing fine! Just remeber Stew that "your not right" hahaha

[AquaticEngineer]

And why didn't I hear about this part of the trip?

I'll let someone else tell the story from their perspective, lets just say I have an ungodly amount of luck ;)

[AquaticEngineer]

yeah all my fish are doing fine! Just remeber Stew that "your not right" hahaha

"I'm gonna give you a $200 gift today son"

[finch6013]

I wanna hear this story

[AquaticEngineer]

I wanna hear this story

So about 5:30 am we are rolling into Tillamook, we hit the speed trap that goes from 55 to 40 to 30 to 25 in about a 1/4 mile. I get on the brakes, but apparently not quick enough.

Red and blues come on, I pull over and put my keys on the dash, up comes this officer with gray hair and a gray mustache carrying a WWII issued 1911.

He tells me I was clocked doing 56 and 49 in a 30mph zone.

Well he hmmmed and hawwwed for a good 3 minutes before asking for my license.

Keep in mind he's staring at these 4 guys at 5:30 in the morning with a bunch of empty Rock Stars, Red Bulls, and packs of smokes laying around the car.
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So he talks and talks, and after a lot of "Yes Officer" and "You are correct Officer" he tells me he's going to give me a $200 gift today. At this point we had no idea if he was letting us go, or giving me a ticket.

Then he tells us " I'm gonna let you boys go today because I don't feel like taking on all four of you. But you 3 ( he points to everyone else but me) better keep an eye one this one ( he puts his finger right in my chest) because he aint quite right today"

At that point he lets us go and we proceeded to be absolutely dumb founded by what just happened.(laugh)

My ridiculous string of good luck continued throughout the day, as I blindly netted through kelp several different times in the tide pools and pulled up a yellow Clingfish w/red spots one time, and a 12" Kelp Greenling on another swipe. :D

[pnkrcklives]

"My ridiculous string of good luck continued throughout the day, as I blindly netted through kelp several different times in the tide pools and pulled up a yellow Clingfish w/red spots one time, and a 12" Kelp Greenling on another swipe."

Mind you he netted the kelp greenling like 1 min after I was netting in the same spot. And like 5 seconds after he said we scared everthing lets try another spot. And whamo here come a large fish in a net.

[finch6013]

Sounds like good times and one weird cop. I could just see an old drunk hillbilly cop doing just that.

[APESHYT]

".
I dont remember you telling me anything of the sort despite what you say

[city hunter]

so when is the next trip? :) I'm also wanting to try one of these tanks out. I do have a 75g glass setup I will be cleaning out as soon as I move up to a 200ish gallon tank, but frankly I think a 40ish gallon cube would be perfect.

[AquaticEngineer]

so when is the next trip? :) I'm also wanting to try one of these tanks out. I do have a 75g glass setup I will be cleaning out as soon as I move up to a 200ish gallon tank, but frankly I think a 40ish gallon cube would be perfect.

Dont do it in the 75 gallon glass, you will regret it. It will sweat like a mofo, and your chiller will run non stop.

Get yourself something customer built from at least 3/4" or 1" acrylic. I got a projuect tank in the works that may be exactly what your looking for ;) Keep in touch and I'll let you know the final price.

Next trip will be scheduled as soon as another low tide corresponds with a sunday. Seems like that is the only time we can get everyone together early enough to make it worth while.

The next good low tide is on the 4th of July weekend, so driving to the beach we decided may not be the best day. It still may happen though depending on the amount of interest, and who can go.

[pnkrcklives]

Hey I am game for a weekday trip just need a week or two advance so I can put in for PTO...

[AquaticEngineer]

Hey I am game for a weekday trip just need a week or two advance so I can put in for PTO...

Possible trip then for the morning of Sunday July 3rd, I'll take a look at the tides and see what the wife says (wife)

[AquaticEngineer]

Sunday July 3rd:

Low tide: 8:49 AM -1.3

Sunrise: 5:32 AM

So it would probably be the same sort of deal as the last few trips. Gotta get out of town by 4 am to get there at sunrise and then we'd have about 3 solid hours of outgoing tides.

[pnkrcklives]

I am game if you guys are ready for more creatures...

[AquaticEngineer]

I am for sure, I want to try and find more Clingfish.

I was stupid and forgot to put the grates back onto my overflows and the yellow one I caught got sucked over and died :(

[drunkreefer]

now if you would have gave him to me he would be fine bet cha feel bad hahaha

[AquaticEngineer]

now if you would have gave him to me he would be fine bet cha feel bad hahaha

:( True.

I hope those little ones come out in your tank though. I'm sure we'll catch more of them if we found 3 in just that one trip.

[city hunter]

I dont have ac yet but I plan on figuring something out before summer gets too hot.It wsill be in the living room along with my reef, which I will be upgrading to around a 290g soon.

I'm thinking IU would like some type of cube setup, not too large, maybe in the mid 40gallon range.

Do you guys have pictures of your wet dfry setups. Are you using something like bio balls or?

I'd be down to go along and im pretty much free most of the summer.

shaun

[AquaticEngineer]

The Rally point for the meeting in the morning on Sunday July 3rd will be the Safeway parking off of 185th is nice and open and lit at that time of the moring.

There is also a gas station, Jack in the Box and a Sharis there in case we want to get anything before we leave.

Address for Safeway is:

2177 Northwest 185th., Hillsboro, OR

From there we can all carpool in my Jeep, I have room for me plus 3, and a trailer to haul any gear you want to bring.

All you need to do is contribute on gas to whoever you ride with so it all evens out for everyone :D

[AquaticEngineer]

The Rally point for the meeting in the morning on Sunday July 3rd will be the Safeway parking off of 185th is nice and open and lit at that time of the moring.

There is also a gas station, Jack in the Box and a Sharis there in case we want to get anything before we leave.

Address for Safeway is:

2177 Northwest 185th., Hillsboro, OR

From there we can all carpool in my Jeep, I have room for me plus 3, and a trailer to haul any gear you want to bring.

All you need to do is contribute on gas to whoever you ride with so it all evens out for everyone :D

Forgot to put this in the above post,

We will be departing from the rally point at 4 am.

[AquaticEngineer]

As of now head count for the July 3rd trip is:

Stu

Josh

Taylor

I need to make sure and get and accurate head count this time because if we have more than 3, we will need to take 2 vehicles since there will be a videographer coming along this trip :D

[reef165]

You guy's going to Netarts/Oceanside this time again? I'm going to be in Oceanside from friday to sunday.

[AquaticEngineer]

You guy's going to Netarts/Oceanside this time again? I'm going to be in Oceanside from friday to sunday.

Yup we'll be down on the beach in Oceanside at sunrise, down towards Maxwell Point near Three Arch Rocks.

[reef165]

You go through the tunnel to the beach on the other side? Low tide is at 8:30ish so you going to be there about 7:30ish? I'll definatly be there!! I think Saturday I'm going to go and collect a bunch of Muscles to have for dinner!! Did that a couple monthes ago when there, Sooooo freaken good!!!

[pnkrcklives]

That would be cool to see you there Eddie...

[AquaticEngineer]

You go through the tunnel to the beach on the other side? Low tide is at 8:30ish so you going to be there about 7:30ish? I'll definatly be there!! I think Saturday I'm going to go and collect a bunch of Muscles to have for dinner!! Did that a couple monthes ago when there, Sooooo freaken good!!!

We'll be there around 5:30 am and take the tunnel through to the other side if the tide is too high still when we get there.

That should give us a good 3 hours of outgoing tide before it minus' out at -1.3 around 8:49 am.

After that we'll gather up everything, sort through what we want to take home, and then probably go check out a couple spots I have been wanting to see that are further up from there.

[reef165]

Ya, isn't it the last - tide till fall? I prob wont be out there at 5:30 but will set the allarm for 7 and head straight out :)

[pnkrcklives]

Cool see you there!! We will be the group with all the buckets and people looking at us funny!

[AquaticEngineer]

Cool see you there!! We will be the group with all the buckets and people looking at us funny!.........and the film crew ;)

[pnkrcklives]

Oh I for got about our paparazzi folowing us. What exactly is the filming going to be used for or is that some kinda secret... I will give you a call later tonight Stu. Got a couple things to run by you for some new equip I am making and bringing for us to use.

[AquaticEngineer]

Lol, no secret :D Its the same guy that filmed my tank.

His name is Boyd, he actually brought up the idea of filming one of these trips awhile back. He's doing it mostly for fun, but I may use some of his footage evetually. He has some really cool equipment, stuff like pole cams, and the waterproof go-pro cameras. He wants to shoot some really close up stuff with macro lenses in the tidepools also.

[AquaticEngineer]

Taylor definitely give me ring tonight, or stop by if your out my way. I'll be home around 6 tonight

[pnkrcklives]

That sounds cool. Wonder if he can school me in using the water proof cam. Cause I am totally convinced that I will be fully in the water this trip. Would be cool to film inside that moon pool thing. I plan on bringing mask and snorkle as I finally found mine. I will be searching for that darn surf smelt that got away... I wont be out your way tonight. But will give you a ring for sure. I am gonna make some buckets with large holes in them(with screens over them) so there is flow but nothing gets out. I will also be working on the "slup guns" for us to try and suck things up with. I am excited for another trip...

[AquaticEngineer]

Sweet :D

GREENLINGS BE AFRAID!!!!

[reef165]

So how was the trip? Sorry I wasn't able to make it, was nursing a hangover. Had only eaten breakfast Sat. and thought is would be a good idea to do 7 shots of rum (Kracken) in about 10 min. was a great night but woke up thismorning feeling the aftermath!! I did make it out to the tidepools in Pacific City Sat morning though and it was so low!! Saw lots of new things!!! Found a clump of about 6 red tube worms/ fether duster type things, plus allot of sponges and such. Was very cool!!! I'm really wanting to set up a coldwater!!!!

[AquaticEngineer]

It was freaking awesome :D

It was the lowest we have seen it out there this year, and there was a ton of sand that had been washed in with the high tides so we had a lot more mobility.

The filming was a lot of fun, and I think it'll turn out even better than I had imagined.

There was a ton of people down on the beach by the time we were packing up, and we kind of drew a crowd which was pretty cool :D

This will probably be the last trip we make until this fall when the tides get really low again.

[Smann]

Sounds like you guys are having alot of fun with this! I want to come see your tanks sometime Stu

[AquaticEngineer]

Sounds like you guys are having alot of fun with this! I want to come see your tanks sometime Stu

For sure :D Hopefully I'll have the big tank plumbed up and running by then.

[pnkrcklives]

Was an awesome trip!!! We even found our old buddy, Officer mcfarland... I never caught so many kelp greenling in one day
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[AquaticEngineer]

Was an awesome trip!!! We even found our old buddy, Officer mcfarland... I never caught so many kelp greenling in one day
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Junior Officers :D

[AquaticEngineer]

So on my way home yesterday, about 23 miles outside of Tillamook in BFE with no cell reception, one of the tires on the trailer blew out.(flame)

So I loaded everything into the Jeep, pulled the trailer onto the side of the road and just kept going. Everything made it into the tanks alive, and my insurance is going to cover the cost of the tow truck that picked it up and brought it home for me.

What a day.

[pnkrcklives]

Holy cow the day ended in a weird way. To weird your wife caught us just as we were leaving. Glad I was able to get josh to his in laws. Glad insurance will cover the tow on the trailer. But I still had a lot of fun. Glad the film crew did not see everything go sideways lol...

[AquaticEngineer]

Yeah no doubt.

[drunkreefer]

So Crystals dad is alright thank god just a bad mix of heart meds and diverticulitis meds,
anyhow the trip was kick butt. This thing is about to blow up! Its only going to get bigger and better!

[drunkreefer]

Just remember stew isn't right in the head hahaha

[pnkrcklives]

Glad all is well with the in laws... COLD WATER TAKE OVER!!!!

[AquaticEngineer]

Tiger Pods are breeding already :D

Got em seperated into 2 small acrylic tanks in the North facing window and another shallow tank growing out the algae.

I need a small brine net so I can start slimming the colonies out and feed em to the tanks.

[drunkreefer]

can your new nick-name be tiger Stew?

[pnkrcklives]

That small white net of mine is supposed to be a brine net. You should still have it? You can use it if it works. I have no use for it...

[AquaticEngineer]

can your new nick-name be tiger Stew?

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That small white net of mine is supposed to be a brine net. You should still have it? You can use it if it works. I have no use for it...

Sweet, its probably in one of the buckets still.

[drunkreefer]

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Sweet, its probably in one of the buckets still.

hahaha
WTF !!

[AquaticEngineer]

hahaha
WTF !!

That was from back in my wild days, before wife and kids. ;)

[city hunter]

anymore trips planned anytime soon?

[AquaticEngineer]

We were going to go today, but decided not to. I had a bunch of stuff to do around the house, and the tide was only a -.7 that bottomed out around 6:30 am.

So we only would have had maybe an hour of daylight with the tide going out, and then a little while of it coming in.

I'm going to look at the tide tables and plan something a little further out that works better.