The King Tides off San Diego’s coast over the weekend brought a crowd of people that did more than just look at the tide pools. In fact, some visitors to the state-protected La Jolla coast may have broken the law.
“I saw people taking animals in marine protected areas, putting them in buckets and handling them inappropriately,” Savannah Ekelem said as she looked out over the La Jolla tide pools on Monday morning.
Ekelem calls herself an extreme hobbyist who is passionate about protecting the ocean. She is also a nursing student and active on the social media platform TikTok, where she is known as “Seavannah1.”
As the latest round of King Tides pushed and pulled ocean water along San Diego’s coastline starting New Year’s Day, an unexpected number of huge crowds of people rushed to do more than just watch the waves…