{"id":9081,"date":"2011-02-26T21:25:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=9081"},"modified":"2011-02-26T21:25:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:25:23","slug":"low-tide-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=9081","title":{"rendered":"Low Tide Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see this Mercedes SUV navigating over sensitive tidelands habitat in the Des Moines area of Washington. I looked it up and found that it is, in fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterlandblog.com\/2010\/07\/01\/is-it-legal-for-cars-to-drive-and-park-on-des-moines-beaches\/\">legal for residents of this area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a transplanted Californian, I was told a few times to stay off the tidelands, low or high tide, didn&#8217;t matter. I was new\u00a0to tidal law in Puget Sound, and I didn&#8217;t realize that property to the low tide line wasn&#8217;t public. In another area, not too far from where this particular photo was taken, I was told by a property owner that they limited beach access for the integrity of sea life in the low tide zone &#8212; which, by the way, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2009\/11\/ahimsa-at-the-tidepools\/\">fully support and abide by<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I could be wrong, but it seems a Mercedes SUV crushes a few more mussels and crabs than my rubber-souled moccasins would. Your thoughts?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9082\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Driving-On-Beach.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9082\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9082\" title=\"Driving On Beach\" alt=\"Driving on Des Moines Beach Low Tide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Driving-On-Beach.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low Tide in Des Moines, Washington &#8211; \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see this Mercedes SUV navigating over sensitive tidelands habitat in the Des Moines area of Washington. I looked it up and found that it is, in fact, legal for residents of this area. As a transplanted Californian, I was told a few times to stay off the tidelands, low or high tide, didn&#8217;t matter. I was new\u00a0to tidal law in Puget Sound, and I didn&#8217;t realize that property to the low <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=9081\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[221],"class_list":["post-9081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","category-uncategorized","tag-tides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}