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Get up early and join me for an intertidal foraging expedition class that will blow your mind! These classes have been chosen at the lowest of low tides so you will be sure to see a vast intertidal smorgasbord of shellfish, (clams, limpets, rock crabs, goose barnacles, mussels) fish (monkeyface eels, grass rock fish, cabezon) and sea weeds (bull kelp, rock weed, nori, sea lettuce) and various other creatures! This class is a mix of "how-to" info, regulations, sustainability, ecology, and more! Though you won't be able to forage for yourself on this tour, I can give away anything that I myself catch and gather--and potentially that could be quite a lot of stuff!
{The annual mussel quarantine is in effect from May 1st to Oct. 31st.}
{This tour requires some vigorous tide-pooling and possibly a little climbing on slippery rocks. Wear waders or at the very least rubber boots. Some folks wear shorts and wading shoes (crocs or sandals) but be forewarned, the water is very cold}.
To be clear, if you want to harvest stuff yourself, you'll have to wait till the tour is over. At which point you're free to put all the stuff you've learned to good use!
The Expedition: A 'Tour de Force' of Coastal Foraging
Price $50.00 per person (group rates and discounts available).
15 person maximum group.
Start Locations:
1. Pillar Point Parking Lot. (Follow "Getting there" directions to Pillar Pt. Parking lot)
Mondo Clam Expedition: Walk the tidal mudflats looking for monster clams! Watch the eel master hunt the big monkeyface eel. Learn the only legal way to harvest limpets! Eat kelp on the shores.
CALL ME TO BOOK YOUR GROUP: 415-368-6634
Getting There:
From CA 1 in San Mateo County (about 3 miles north of the CA 92 junction in Half Moon Bay), turn west at a traffic light onto Capistrano. Drive about 0.3 mile on Capistrano, then turn left onto Prospect. Drive 0.1 mile, then turn left onto Broadway. Almost immediately, turn right onto Princeton. Drive about 0.4 mile, then turn right onto West Point Avenue. Drive about 0.6 mile, to the parking lot on the left at the end of the road, before the entrance to the Air Force station.
Please contact me if you have a group or a particular day in mind. See below for contact info.
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2. Monster Eel Expedition: This is the 2nd of my two "Expedition" tours! Learn to hunt the ever elusive and delicious, monkeyface eel. But also learn the ways of the cabezon, grass rockfish, ling cod, mussel, goose barnacle and limpet.
Location: Pebble Beach (Not the golf course, the State Beach between Bean Hollow and Pescadero, CA)
The Pebble Beach Monster Eel Tour is by private request only... minimum group size = 8.
To Book The Pebble Beach Tour
Call me: 415-368-6634
or
E-mail me: mawson@gmail.com
In the meantime watch this:
How to Poke Pole A Monkeyface Eel
