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Fish-Eating Anemone, Urticina piscivora

Oodles of Purple Sea Stars or Pisaster ochraceus

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A dark purpleish, red ochre sea star, clutching onto a concrete pylon under a ferry dock at low tide

An ochre star under the ferry dock at low tide, Edmonds, Washington

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Three dark colored sea stars on pillars that have been exposed at low tide with wet sand underneath them

Some ochre sea stars under the Edmonds ferry dock at low tide

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