Unknown Artists of the Ocean
Tidepools along the Pacific Coast, and throughout the world, are painted with the vivid pink of coralline algae. This plantlike organism...
Searching for Coral
I have yet to find orange cup coral in my backyard tidelands. I’ve wanted to see this colorful coral of the cold Pacific ever since I...
Stranger than Science Fiction
Novelist John Steinbeck's best friend was Ed Ricketts, a marine biologist and pioneering ecologist who published Between Pacific Tides....
Christmas Present
Today at The Needles a Christmas anemone was present. The sight of this animal's strange coloration in the morning sun was a gift to my...
Curious Creatures in a Hidden World
Amy and I headed out at dawn to Ecola Point with the goal of probing the low intertidal zone. We wanted to see some bizarre creatures....
Zombie Anemones
Have the tidelands been invaded by zombies? I've been seeing pale anemones in tidepools; I’ve also been reading about anemones expelling...
