seen at low tide

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• Starfish: purple, orange, many-legged sunflowers. Very common hiding under moon-snail egg collars. Enormous foot-and-a-half sunflower star unhappily high on the beach.
  
• Sea cucumbers, orange-red with fractal feeding tentacles.
  
• Anemones, mostly balled up, some red-and-green mottled.
  
• Barnacles doing their Jabba tongue thing wherever they're below the waterline.
  
• Nudibranchs white-striped on pink-brown. (Armina californica)
  
• A one-inch sluggy creature, two "horns", back covered with fingers, streaked black and iridescent green and pink -- some aeolid? Poss. Hermissenda crassicornis?
  
• The name sounded like "agagids", prob. "aglajids", Aglaja ocelligera. A boy found one and the beach naturalist was all aglee, agagids agagids, you always see their mucusy egg masses but she'd never seen the animal before. (It must be a good day for them, we found two more once we knew to look closely at shiny blackish oblong pebbles.)
  
• Gunnels, many being eaten by crows, one dropped by a crow and wriggled into the mud, the crow pecking at the ground aggrievedly.
  
• A little spiral of green on the underside of a moon snail egg: polychaete eggs.
  
• Tobiko! Red-orange egg masses attached to seaweed -- sculpin eggs, a naturalist thought -- and one huge agglomerate mass the size of a hat -- gang of sculpins?
  
• Flat sunflower-seed-spirally cellule colonies on brown seaweed: bryozoans, Membraniporea membranaceae (or related).
  
• turtle turtle turtle duck turtle turtle.