The ocean is the Earth’s great breathing lung, a vast and restless body that moves to a rhythm dictated by the celestial dance of the moon and sun. To stand at the shoreline is to witness a constant negotiation between the solid and the fluid, where the boundaries of the world are rewritten every six hours. The tides are not merely a rise and fall of water; they are a pulse, a relentless reminder that the planet is a living, moving entity. This cyclical push and pull creates a unique environment known as the intertidal zone—a strip of the world that belongs neither to the land nor to the sea,…