The Haystack Rock Awareness Program will host guided beach tours on Saturdays in October.

CANNON BEACH — The Haystack Rock Awareness Program will hold weekly guided tide pool tours through the end of October.

Meet on the beach at Haystack Rock for an hour-long tour through the diverse ecosystem of the rock’s tide pools. An HRAP environmental interpreter will discuss the ecology, geology, and marine biology of Haystack Rock.

The tours will take place every Saturday during low tide times and regularly scheduled HRAP Beach Shifts and are weather dependent. Tours are scheduled for: 10:30 a.m. Oct. 8; 4:30 p.m. Oct. 15; and 11 a.m. Oct. 22.

The talks and tours are free and open to the public, but a suggested donation of $10 is recommended. RSVP to HRAP Education Coordinator Lisa Habecker at visithrap@ci.cannon-beach.or.us or 503-436-8064.

The Haystack Rock Awareness Program is a stewardship program with the mission to protect, through education, the intertidal and seabird life of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and Marine Garden at Haystack Rock. Since its modest beginnings in 1985, HRAP has educated and inspired over 900,000 adults and children to learn about the natural resources at Haystack Rock.