This is one of the smallest nudibranchs I’ve ever seen! I like to go when the tide isn’t super low, sometimes it’s nice to focus on a small space, you notice a lot. This is a baby shaggy mouse!

June 2024, WA
#nudibranch #invertbrate #marinelife #seacreature

I love that in this video you can see all the little barnacles waving their appendages! I think this is an Acanthadoris pilosa but if someone could confirm that ID I would really appreciate it!

June 2024, WA
#nudibranch #marinelife #invertebrate #InvertID

Timelapse pt.9/?
I’m not sure if this is a juvenile mottled with an extra leg or a 6 rayed sea star. I love watching their tube feet carry them across the cobble!!!

August 2024, WA
#marinelife #invertebrate #tidepooling #seastar

Timelapse pt.8/?
Cute little plumose anemone reaching out its tentacles into the water. Anemones are one of my favorite animals, I like them a lot because they don’t seem like they should be an animal

#marinelife #invertebrates

Timelapse pt.7/?
This is the second ever leopard dorid I’ve seen and I was so excited by it. They are one of my all time favorite nudibranchs and invertebrates in general. I’m super excited for this next set of King tides!
June 2024, WA

#marinelife #nudibranch #invertebrates

Timelapse pt.6/?

This was one of the most beautifully colored dirona’s i’ve ever seen! there was also a little baby one hanging out nearby!
July 2024, WA

#marinelife #nudibranch

Timelapse pt.5/?
I shy away from putting nudis in containers now. This was at the start of my tidepooling experience last spring and these two were so adorable. I would go to the same place and could always find them. I’m not positive on the species, Acanthadoris of some sort?

🐙 #nudibranch

Timelapse pt. 4/?
This was a huge chunky sea lemon (Peltodoris nobilis) that my fiancee and I found at Hole in the Wall. Didn’t get a long timelapse but it was cool to see it moving over to another rock.

#marinelife #nudibranch #invertebrate #olympicpenninsula