A beautiful Christmas anemone, Urticina crassicornis, reaches its stinging tentacles toward the sun-illuminated plankton.
Step over the seaweed without a closer look, and you might miss the tiny limpet egg mass clinging to the blades.
Several masses of limpet eggs remind us our intertidal zones team with life year-round.
This tiny aggregating anemone (Anthopleura elegatis) was around an inch in diameter!
Leptasterias aequalis, a six-armed sea star... so tiny!! It's not my best picture... but it is one of my favorites :)
A tiny hermit crab-- too small to identify-- waves his claws at us in an attempt to scare off the cooing scientists.