Your Host Mari Ana Trench, hard at work researching her next episode.
Welcome to The Littoral Zone
The littoral zone—that dynamic strip of shore between high and low tide—is where ocean meets land, and curiosity washes up with every wave.
Mari has been wandering the North Oregon Coast for over a decade now, and her daily beach walks have left her with an impressive collection of questions: What made these tracks? Why is this crab walking sideways AND backward? Is that seaweed or something's discarded lunch?
Here's the thing: Mari is absolutely not a marine biologist. She's not a scientist. She has zero formal qualifications to teach anyone about ecosystems, coastal ecology, or why barnacles are so unreasonably hard to remove from rocks.
What she is:
hopelessly curious, enthusiastically confused, and armed with just enough knowledge to be dangerous.
Join her as she explores the Oregon Coast—asking questions, Googling things at 2 AM, and discovering that the shore is way weirder and more wonderful than expected.
The tide's coming in. Let's see what it brings.