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Biodiversity of the sunburst sea anemone part 2

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Sometimes I get really worried about Same Face Syndrome in my art so it always ends up revolving into something like this

"Low Tide," watercolor illustration from Tell the Turning.

Went tidepooling and found some critters!

Periwinkles are easily the most common animals there. They cover the rocks so much you can't tell what's rock and what's snail.

Wee little winkles, all in a row

Periwinkle with a passenger

Illegally small crab

Couple o' them thar hermity crabs

Jeez, cant two snails have their snail sex (snex) in peace without someone showing up to bother them?

I don't know what this is. It was covered in slime. Maybe an egg mass, sponge, or some kind of colonial animal.

I also don't know what these are. They were squishy so I was thinking maybe an egg mass or retracted anemones

Mollusk on the move

This lad was missing both claws and a leg. He was presumably hiding in the kelp while waiting for them to regrow

Little limpet

One-armed crab mama with her clutch of eggs

I also saw shrimp and isopods, but they were too fast to get a picture of

As a treat for myself on my birthday I made a short little collage of some of my favourite tidepool finds!

Snails feeding on kelp.

GIF by Monterey Bay Aquarium

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