#tide pooling

[fungusqueen]

The intertidal zone at Moss Cove in Laguna Beach. If you look closely, you can see surfgrass (a flowering plant, not a seaweed) and where some seaweed (an algae) is attached to some of the rocks.

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

tide pooling after work

[jadafitch]

Saddleback Ledge Light, Isle au Haut Bay, Maine. The lighthouse's first keeper, Watson Hopkins, lived in the tower with his wife and seven (later eight) children. The tower contained a living room with a stove, two bedrooms and a cellar, and the ledge is about a quarter of an acre at high tide. According to a 1842 report, he was miserable.

[lightningspam-photography]

Tide Pool

taken at Laguna Beach, California

This tiny pool was maybe 4 or 5 inches deep but full of a variety of species! Its a great example of how diverse tide pools can be. If you look in the upper left there's a crab molt, to the right and bottom there's several California Mussels, just above the mussels on the left is a clam, and there's even a neat limpet in the mix!

[noncompliantcyborg]

New (to me!) Species

I recently observed a new-to-me species in the intertidal!

It's the barnacle eating dorid, scientific name Onchidoris bilamellata, a species of nudibranch that can gather in large groups to lay eggs.

On the left is a photo of some of the eggs and on the right is a photo of one of the groups of these slugs I found (also shout out to the Leptasterias sea star chilling next to them - we found a lot of sea stars under the same rocks as these nudibranchs).

I first noticed the eggs on a low tide earlier last week, and then on Friday I went tide pooling with some grad students from WSU for the -2.4' tide. As we scrabbled around the intertidal in the dark, we carefully turned over some rocks and found several different breeding groups like the one above. I thought it was interesting that almost every rock underside with these breeding groups of nudibranchs also had one or more Leptasterias sea stars. After observing and taking some quick pictures, we always made sure to gently place the rocks back how they'd started so the animals could stay moist and protected until the tide came in.

[leonsrightarm]

yesterday's highlight was this crab i saw with substantial kelp growing out of its back

[catnoli]

a collection of tide pool critters + epaulette sharks from my ko-fi sticker sheet for september!! join here to get it ^_^

[sablecitrus]

A warmup I made this morning of my fursona. If anyone remembers the last drawing I made of them with the white fur, they have brown fur in this one because this is their summer coat! I know sables don’t have different colored coats for winter and summer like ermines do, but I just took some creative liberty and gave them a winter and summer coat anyway lol.

[juniper-clan]

Moon 14: Birth of Venus

(AKA the twins!)

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[pnwander]

tide pool ࿐࿔

[bethanythebogwitch]

Tons of hermit crabs on the beach

[fungusqueen]

Giant Green Anemones (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) surrounded by Pacific Purple Sea Urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) and Gooseneck barnacles (Pollicipes polymerus)

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

A mottled sea star exposed at low tide

May 27, 2023

[feather-bone]

[ID: A photo of a sticker pack labeled "marine monsters" and a postcard with unusual fish drawings, on top of many stickers of different kinds of sea life. End.]

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[lightningspam-photography]

Pacific Purple Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus)

taken in Crescent Bay in California

status: not evaluated

These spiny creatures live along the Pacific coast from Baja California up to Vancouver Island and can often be found in hoards like this.

[casual-socks]

jon sims the type of kid to lift up rocks at the beach to see the Creatures. went to the beach specifically to take a gander at a crab or two. perhaps get some fish into a castle shaped bucket