On the 15th of February my wife and I travelled from Lake Tarawera to the the Waitakere Ranges in New Zealand (North Island). We took a bre...

One of the most common crabs at Vancouver Island's shores: the purple shore crab, Hemigrapsus nudus . The purple shore crab belongs ...

Picture yourself as a clam lying on the bottom of Deep Cove bay, Vancouver Island. This starfish approaches you. He likes you, as food. B...

I found the plumose anemones (see previous post) on a jetty at Deep Cove bay. The jetty and bridge are overgrown with foolish mussels, Myti...

It can grow up to 1 meter high: the giant plumose anemone (Metridium farcimen) . The specimens I saw were not higher than 25 cm. It’s one o...

This is the Lewis's moonsnail (Euspira lewisii) . It lives in and on sand where it preys on bivalves like the Pacific gaper (Tresus nutt...