
The Burnaby Narrows Passage is dry


Photos of the Intertidal sea life in Burnaby Narrows.

Red Rock Crab

Moon snail egg case

Sunflower Starfish. They have been hit with a wasting disease. This one is very small. Hopefully they will start to recover. They helped keep down the sea urchin population.

Operculum in the Red Turban snail - used in Haida art - often for teeth in killer whales

The Red Turban snail

Leather Star fish.

Bat Stars.

Plumose anemones and rock scallops

Bat Star and a sea cucumber.

Moon snail

Horse Clam

Big Leather Star with a Bat Star



Thousands of Bar Stars on the shore.

Kelp crab

Snails with eggs on a rock

Plumose anemones

More Plumose anemones

Pink Sea Star ( Pisaster brevispinus )

Kelp beds

Eelgrass beds

Phoenix Hunter on the Mooring ball.
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i'm so up on tides............lol......how long will these guys stay out of water for???
ReplyDeleteSo many creatures........so pleased you could tell me what they are as I would have no idea except for the star fish.........so many colours and shapes.......
What a cool thing to see. You took the right biologist with you!
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