It was like one day the tide went out and never came back.

"Every tide is going to be higher than the last."

"I didn't think the tide was going to turn back," he said.

The tide went down and the line of rocks began to show.

High tide would have come and gone before they did.

Every day, the tides here go up and down about three feet.

When the tide went out, they found their food and prepared it.

"Once the tide goes down, there is a little rock you can go out and walk on," he said.

I was stuck in this place with him, at least until the tide went out.

One morning, as the tide went out, the old people came to sit and watch the ocean.