Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore

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This passage created an image of time pooling around me. Who is to say it does not? When I stop and really attend to something, time seems to stop for a moment and expand out. Science or pseudoscience? Looks like science from where I'm sitting. There are three different types of tidal power. All of these use tidal energy generators to convert that power into electricity for use in homes and industry. Evocative . . . [Nicolson’s] wonder is infectious, and he makes a convincing case that to better understand the sea, people must pay more attention . . . As poetic as it is enlightening, [ Life Between the Tides ] is tough to put down." — Publishers Weekly To care and be aware of 'us'. About recognizing problems around us as well as reality - if you'd only stop and look past the blurred images zipping by. Life Between the Tides] evokes [the tide pools’] tiny inhabitants in lovely detail . . . Periwinkles smell the juices of their crab-killed comrades and flee into crevices. There’s brutality here, but also brilliance—anemones, despite literal brainlessness, adeptly size up their rivals—and astonishing tenderness . . . Nicolson’s at his best when he’s focused on his precious littoral world.”—Ben Goldfarb, The New York Times Book Review

The moon’s tidal force has a much greater effect on the surface of the ocean, of course. Water is liquid and can respond to gravity more dramatically. Animals that breathe with lungs but depend on the sea for their food such as penguins, seals and seabirds (manutai) live on or near the shore.

Te ao Māori connections

The zooplankton (kōurangi) are tiny organisms that are found at and near the surface of the water and are the most numerous of the animals living in the tidal zone. They include tiny adult animals such as shrimps and krill and the larvae and young of fish and shellfish. Smaller fish (ika) and jellyfish (petipeti) depend on this food source and also live in the shallow waters.

The article Building Science Concepts: Life between the tides provides additional science and pedagogical information. Above the high-tide line – the land beyond the highest point that the tide reaches in normal conditions.Reading Paulette Jiles' revenge western Chenneville, it's easy to remember she's a poet. She plays ...