This site is located between the cities of Santa Cruz and Capitola, directly off the end of 33rd Avenue, looking southeast. The site is off the eastern tip of Soquel Point on an extensive low-zone platform covered with surfgrasses. The site can only be reached by walking when the tide is at or below –1.0 feet; such low tides occur in the afternoons of late fall and winter and the mornings of late spring and summer. To reach the outer-most platform and the sampling site, clamber down the surfer trail at the 33rd Avenue / East Cliff Drive intersection. That places you on the sand-covered platform from where you can walk out on the platforms. You can circumvent the deeper portions of the channels by going around to the east, and then out to the sampling site by walking west on the outer-most platform.