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A Field Guide to Coastal Field Guides
What to bring to the beach — or read after you get home
Find your Guide
| If you are… | In the Field | At Home |
|---|---|---|
| At the Tidepools |  Mac's NW Coastal Invertebrates Laminated, indestructible, our #1 coastal seller |  Between Pacific Tides The classic, since 1939 |
| On the Beach |  The New Beachcomber's Guide to the Pacific NW Shells, driftwood, tracks, the whole wrack line |  Whelks to Whales 400+ species in color — newly revised 2022 edition |
| On the Water |  Mac's NW Coast Water Birds Sanderlings to rhinoceros auklets |  Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest The encyclopedic reference |
| Getting Started |  Between the Tides in WA and OR Organized by habitat zone, as you experience it |  The Soul of an Octopus The book that makes you care |
If You Can Only Pick One
★ Staff Pick
Between the Tides in Washington and Oregon
Kelly organizes the shore the way the tide does — splash zone, high intertidal, low — so you learn to read a beach's zones, not just put names on what lives there. Once you see zonation, every cove becomes understandable. And since the one thing everyone does on this coast is walk the low tide, this is the book we'd hand a first-time visitor.
Tidepooler Starter Pack
Mac's Coastal Invertebrates+Between the Tides in WA & OR
The laminated card for quick ID at the tidepool, plus the guide that teaches you to read the zones. Fits in a jacket pocket.
Nature Reader Starter Pack
The Soul of an Octopus+Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Montgomery on what lives under the rocks, White on the water itself. Both will change how you see the shore.
