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A photopost! We'll start with the collective pack of Kyn and myself, politely sitting until released to play. All four dogs looking in the same direction omg.

By the way, I know that my use of "sessile" wasn't exactly correct in the last post, but it was close enough and I wanted to use it so I did. Sufficiently accurate for poetry?

This is a better composition with the background, but Rogue was looking elsewhere.

zoomdogs! Luck loves to fetch; everyone else loves to chase Luck while he fetches. Alas, Luck is one of the senior members of the pack, and Kyn cut short the fetching this time so that he wouldn't have to pay for it quite so much later on.

Little Rogue of Earthsea has been my tidepool buddy for a really long time now.

There was a new set of mussels growing on the rocks, recently having traded their planktonic lifestyle for a sessile one. (Something echinoderms don't actually do). One of the sets was far too high above the waterline and probably won't make it with so much exposure, but this set, shown growing alongside adults, has a chance.

Giant green anemone.

Ochre stars, "holding hands."

More gorgeously betentacled giant greens. I love these things.

Faithful young tideshelt supervises my activities and somberly makes certain, by remaining glued to my ankles as shelties will, that I don't get washed out to sea.

So much to look at here! There were SPONGES galore!

See, here's a lovely purple one. I don't take the DSLR into tidepools, but the little camera does well enough I suppose.

All these sponges, but no nudibranchs. Oh well.

Windswept silver collie.

Handsome and very youthful little tricolor pupbeast. Collies take a long time to mature; Bliss isn't done growing and Rooster is just beginning to sketch in his adult size and head shape. He is going through a growth spurt right now, and his muzzle is beginning to take on the shape of what will be the refined head of a male rough collie. Of course, his backskull hasn't caught up to it at all. Comparing his skull to Bliss' right now is hilarious.

OMG OMG SUNFLOWER STARS. Two of them! These rather aggressive, strong, fast-moving stars are softer-bodied than the common ochre stars and so usually live below the tide line altogether. Meeting them is always a treat.