Neighbors
Tidepools provide a glimpse into the lives of some exotic creatures, all packed into a very tight space. Here, a hermit crab walks along an empty mussel shell towards a sea anemone, with a sea urchin buried underneath the shells.
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Neighbors
Tidepools provide a glimpse into the lives of some exotic creatures, all packed into a very tight space. Here, a hermit crab walks along an empty mussel shell towards a sea anemone, with a sea urchin buried underneath the shells.
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I grew up calling these starfish, but I believe sea star is the more proper term.
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Is the Tidepool Half Full or Half Empty?
The answer to the age old question depends not on whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist, but on how fast you can move with the changing water levels. If you’re a starfish, it’s half empty.
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Framed
I found this orange starfish in a tide pool and liked the way the dark seaweed framed the orange star.
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Legs Crossed, Holding Tightly
Pity the starfish that does not take advantage of the cover of high tide to relieve itself. This poor fellow clinging to a large boulder was left high-and-dry by the receding tide and could do naught but cross its legs and hold it in. Waiting for the inevitable return of the sea but tortured always by the sound of splashing water …
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Urchincy
A grouop of urchins are hunkered down in circular depressions in the rock of this tide pool, little homes they slowly carve out over time to keep them from being blown about by the tides. There's not much they can do about the little pieces of driftwood that get blown on top of them though. Most urchins in Oregon's tide pools are purple, but every once in a while you'll find one of the rare red ones.
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