TIDEPOOLING
Connie and I took a break from herping to do some tidepooling and found a few neat creatures.

Red Rock Crab - as its name implies, this crustacean is often found in and around rocky places and features reddish-purple coloration.

A Red Rock Crab with juvenile pattern and coloration. This cool crustacean crushes barnacles with its large pincers and eats them. It also eats smaller crabs, sea cucumbers, and many other intertidal invertebrates, as well as dead fish.

An outstanding looking Fluffy Sculpin.

My first-ever encounter with a Black Prickleback.

The green color in this anemone comes from an endosymbiotic (living within the anemone mutually benefiting both organisms), photosynthetic algae in its tentacles and body.

Porcelain Crabs are fragile animals and often shed their limbs to escape predators.

Padded Sculpin - sculpins make up a very large family of fish, with about 300 species. They are characterized by an oversized head and fanlike pectoral fins.

Leather Sea Stars have a texture is smooth and slippery to the touch, somewhat like wet leather.

Connie checking out the Leather Sea Star.

A baby Cabezon.