This weekend we took the kids to the Negative Tide event at Half Moon Bay.
A normal low tide would be 0 feet, whereas a this negative tide was 1.6ish feet below that, hence a negative tide. So we were walking on rocks which are normally covered in 8 feet of water, so there were all sorts of interesting creatures to see.
We saw:
anemones, sea stars, crabs, sea snails, hermit crabs, all sorts of sea weeds and lots and lots of people.
The drive into Half Moon Bay took a couple hours because of the traffic to see the tide and because it was the first weekend to buy Christmas trees. The drive home was equally as long, but it was okay.