Welcome to the intertidal zone. When the tide is out, it's like taking a snapshot. The tide is out. Emerald green sea anemones retract shopping arms to look like jelly candies stuck to rocks. Purple sea urchins mope.
Sea stars rest.
A single cap coral is a splotch of orange. Mussels hang like bunches of bananas from rocks. Sculpins swim lazily, these spiny-headed fishes with wide mouths, drab and ugly in this colorful marine garden. Visitors are intrigued by a red blob about the size of a building brick clinging to rocks. Lambert gently plucks the mollusk from the shore.