#tidepooling

[theplanthropologist]

Isopods, Nudibranchs, Sea Stars, Chitons, and other marine invertebrates from the king tide in February 2024, at Natural Bridges State Beach.

[plaguedocboi]

I went tidepooling and we saw a pack of like ten seals playing in the water!! Terrible photos but I promise those lumps are seals.

Also my first starfish of the year and some common whelks!

[cainhowlett]

Completed the nudibranch. Leaving the background intact to get the texture of this locally milled tan oak woodblock, such a nice challenge to carve and reminds me of home.

[feather-bone]

[ID: a digital illustration of three purple sea urchins on a stylized rocky yellow background. End.]

Purple sea urchin. Urchins in tide pools have been observed "decorating" themselves with shells, algae and other detritus, to camouflage themselves and protect from the sun and open air.

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Some sloppy creatures from todays tidepooling in Anacortes!

In order:

- Blood Star (regenerating limbs!)

- Orange sea cucumber with gill plume open

- Egg yolk jellyfish (one of many!)

- Clown Nudibranch (silly man!!)

- Red sponge Nudibranch (smaller than my pinkie!)

- Painted anemone (Christmas colored!)

- White lines Nudibranch (alien!)

- Me!! (Not a marine animal :( )

[wolfcomix]

Shi Shi Beach, Oct 26-29, 2023

[tinybackpacks]

the sweetness of a gentle summer 🌿

[rattyexplores]

Unidentified life form.

Upon first seeing these 2021, I believed they were a species of flatworm. I was told on iNaturalist that there weren't any flatworms which matched description, and that the specimens had slight signs of segmentation (thus Annelida). As it currently stands, I have seen these creatures numerous times, but have yet to find any sort of identification.

Brief description: These are benthic creatures, residing in burrows I've mainly witnessed further up the shore in mangrove environments. They remain in their burrows until there is a few centimetres of water level, after which they leave (or a part of them leaves) the burrow to feed on sediment. They sift through the sediment, possibly collecting sediment on the top-facing surface of the body/appendage to take back into the burrow. I typically find these things covered in sediment, and they leave very distinct trails in the sand after feeding. I have only come across them in Bowen (the beach at the giant mango), though I find it doubtful that Bowen is their only location.

08/09/23

10/09/21 - Past photos showcasing trails left after feeding.

QLD:BRB - Bowen, mangrove beach

[kaktohund]

also shoutout to the ocean and the things that live there

[jenfoundabug]

Tide pooling finds north of Santa Cruz. Lots of cool critters <3

Bat star (Patiria miniata)

Feather boa kelp (Egregia menziesii)

Unknown marine isopod

Eelgrass isopod (Pentidotea resecata)

Sunburst anemone (Anthopleura sola) and Corallina

Greater moon jelly (Aurelia labiata)

Hermit crab, likely Pagurus venturensis

Rock barnacles (genus Balanus)

Pale beach hopper (Megalorchestia columbiana)

North American hermit crab (Isocheles pilosus)

[theplanthropologist]

California tidepool invertebrates - chitons, sand dollars, snails, and limpets.

[plaguedocboi]

Sea slugs!!!!

Also limpet face. He says :3

[cainhowlett]

Intertidal love, version 1. Limpets

[fandomlover666]

I found a wild octopus when tidepooling today!

I found him and helped him find a better hiding spot. It took my mother 46 years to find one, and this was up in Oregon!

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Tide pool trip: March 6 2025:

(From L-R, U-D) 1. Shaggy mouse Aeolid nudibranch, possibly eating or trying to eat an aggregating anemone? 2. Striking electric green Moonglow anemone, (Anthopleura Artemisia) one of the thousands that have colonized on this beach. 3. A small sea lemon (Doris montereyensis) sheltered under a rock with an ochre sea star. 4. A pair of juvenile Mottled stars (evasterias troschelii) sheltered beneath a cobble 5. A stubby rose anemone (utricina Clandestina) in the shell silt in the receding tide. 6. A leather star in a deep tide pool on the reef exposed by low tide. 7. A chiton, possibly mossy chiton, sheltered beneath a beach cobble. 8. The scenery at this location, depicting the reef. (Fairhaven, WA)

[ancientfishposting]

went tidepooling with a few non-marine bio people and one of them picked up a hermit crab, stood up to full height with it, and just. dropped it on the ground. like what the hell man that lil guy was just minding his own business why are you tossing him around for no reason