| Notes |
| The low tide for these pictures was +1.5, not a 'minus'. |
| Estero Bluffs is a Coastal State Park preserving 4 miles of coastline. |
| Indians inhabited the area for about 10,000 years. |
| Tells or middens are scattered on the bluffs (reverse landfills). |
| The Abalone Farm is a couple of miles up the coast. |
| They harvest seaweed (lopping off 18 inches a day which grows back in a day). |
| Seaweed with no roots attaches to rocks and grows up to 100ft to the surface. |
| Algin from seaweed is used in ice cream, cosmetics, salad dressing, toothpaste. |
| Sea anemone is an animal. The mussel's attaching thread is the strongest (bissel?) |
| Sea stars only need about a 3mm opening to extrude its stomach into. |
| "Pismo" is taken from an Indian term 'pis-mu' for tar used for caulking. |
| The tar oozes naturally off the coast and ends up on shore in the rocks. |