#epiactis

Salt Creek, WA (August 2019, March 2017, March 2019, August 2019)

I’ve been wanting to make my dive log more artistic for ages now (and actually keep up with it ofc) so I finally figured out how to use a photo editing application similar to photoshop. This is the first thing I made! It’s a collage of proliferating anemones I saw on a dive at Salt Creek. All of the anemones are edited in except the green one in the middle. Can’t wait to experiment more with this! 

March 2018

Check out this beautiful green proliferating anemone, Epiactis prolifera, I found while tide pooling at Larrabee state park near Bellingham, Washington. I saw several specimens but this one was my favorite because it had a few babies attached to the stalk. I often see these guys attached to floating pieces of eel grass (which was how I found this one!). If you’re tide pooling in the PNW, always make sure to check eel grass as they often will have nudibranchs, snails, skeleton shrimp or anemones attached to them. 

This teal color isn’t quite typical where I am - most are brown, reddish, or a much duller green.

Photo credit: ©Saspotato | Locality: Portsea Pier, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia