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Sunny January Beach Day and Tide Pools

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Three smiling people, a child and two adults in swimsuits, pose for a selfie on a sunny beach.

A sunny January beach day, warm enough for swimsuits, which still feels like getting away with something in the middle of winter. We drove out to the coast and set up on the sand with what felt like half of Southern California — the shoreline was crowded all afternoon.

The tide was way out, so the rocks near the base of the bluff were exposed, crusted over with gooseneck barnacles and mussels. She spent a long stretch climbing over them and reaching into the pools, hair blowing sideways the whole time. The wind never really let up.

By late afternoon the wet sand stretched out flat toward the water, pooled in channels where the tide had pulled back. Cold feet, blue sky, everyone a little sandy on the way to the car.

Two smiling women in sunglasses pose for a selfie on a sunny beach with the ocean and people in the background.Two women in sunglasses smile on a beach, with fingers held above one woman's head.A child in a blue swimsuit leans over a barnacle-covered rock, looking into a tide pool on a sandy beach.A child in a swimsuit leans over tide pools filled with barnacles and mussels on a rocky beach.A child in a patterned swimsuit leans into a rocky tide pool on a beach with hills and palm trees.A child in a swimsuit reaches into a tidal pool surrounded by rocks on a sandy beach.A child in a blue swimsuit leans over textured rocks, reaching into a tidal pool on a sandy beach.An adult in sunglasses and a child in swimsuits stand barefoot on a sunny beach.

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