Like a flower opening its petals to greet the sun, this anemone had its tentacles unfurled at sunrise to greet not the sun but the ocean. There is a chiton to the upper left of the anemone that I hadn’t noticed until I got home and looked at the pictures.

When researching my trip to Redwood National and State Parks, I expected to find redwoods (because I’m just that clever!) but I was surprised to see that the park included coastal areas as well. On the last morning of my trip, I visited the tidepools before starting up the coast towards my home in Oregon.

There are a couple of species of anemones in the tidepools of the Northwest, this is a giant green anemone. I’m a little disappointed in the name, while they are a lot larger than aggregating anemones, any creature you see in the ocean with a name that starts with “giant green” ought to be a huge monstrosity that emerges from the depths to wreak havoc and destruction along the coast.