Of course, sea anemones don’t have faces. They do have mouths, though, and since a mouth is usually part of a face, you can sort of imagine what I’m getting at. The sunburst anemone, Anthopleura sola, is one of my favorite intertidal animals to photograph. Of the four species of Anthopleura that we have on…
Month: February 2020
Life is a beach
The first field trip of the semester for my Ecology class is always a jaunt up the coast to Rancho del Oso and Waddell Beach. It’s a great place to start the practice of observing nature, because we can explore the forest in the morning, have lunch, and then wander along the beach in the…
Findings on the beach, and a puzzle
A while back now I went out on a low tide even though the actual low was after sunset. I figured that it was low enough that I’d have plenty of time to poke around as the tide was receding. And given that there were promising clouds in the sky, I took my good camera…