Starfish Everywhere!

[coldclimb]

So short story is my wife and I, two very poor and happy climbers, hitched a ride on a private jet from Alaska to Portland, Oregon to visit family and see some things (and climb of course :D). On one day we headed west to the beach, where in a few hours we checked out heaps and piles of thousands of starfish and anemones and a few other ocean creatures, so here's a few photos to share that experience with the rest of the world. Enjoy!

I think for this post I'm going to forgo captions because they'll all say "here's piles upon piles of starfish on the beach!" :rofl


1:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590674353_esbJd-L.jpg



2:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590674918_SfDPo-L.jpg



3:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590675543_uXyn3-L.jpg



4:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590676015_EroZ9-L.jpg



5:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590676399_QDAiq-L.jpg



6:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590677275_uczAX-L.jpg



7 (my favorite):
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590677731_Xkwyw-L.jpg



8:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590679733_DoxZs-L.jpg



9:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590680137_cJzdc-L.jpg



10:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590681452_rCT5z-L.jpg



11:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590684172_CLnNo-L.jpg



12:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590686203_rWGCp-L.jpg



13:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590686710_NVEE2-L.jpg



14:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590687029_KpaJf-L.jpg



15:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590687631_k98rf-L.jpg



16:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590688539_MHdRM-L.jpg



17:
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590689354_XCKkL-L.jpg



18: Headcrabs!
http://coldclimb.smugmug.com/photos/590690688_HJVGE-L.jpg



Hope this brightens your day! :D

[ian408]

I like that last one. She's a star :D

You're right about the piles of star fish though. If you want help with the the other stuff, Rickets & Hedgepath wrote a great book along with a couple of others called "Between Pacific Tides". Rickets really was "Doc" in Steinbeck's stories.

[Maestro]

The starfish and other mollusks are neat with those bright colors, but the crab image is really good. I like the composition.

[Bud1880]

The seashore seems to be a bit more colorful than the 'high altitude' shots you're used to posting. eh? :D

Beautiful.:thumb

Bud

[Coconut]

#11 is the best:wink ... Orange is my favorite color.

[Dogdots]

Wow...there were a bunch of them all around. I agree...the orange ones are the prettiest as their color just pops.

Number 7 is good indeed. Those green things are strange tho...what is that?

[dlplumer]

Very cool series. :clap

[coldclimb]

Thanks for the comments everyone! :D

Dogdots: the green things are anemones, all curled up inside themselves since the tide is so low. The rocks were crazy colorful with all these critters on them.

I was happy with #11 too, I stood waist-deep in the waves trying to time that one right. :D

Thanks again!