Painted Topshell
Beadlet Anemone
Star Ascidian
Plumose Anemone
An impromptu search amongst the seaweed at Ulster ferry terminal, Yell.
I've been looking for Painted Topshell for a long time. Star Ascidians are incredible and Plumose Anemone are so tiny and awesome. 10 minutes of pure joy.
#Rockpool #Yell #Shetland #Wildlife #MarineLife
European Cowrie from a #Shetland Rockpool today.
Most people know these as smooth shells, beach treasures, collected alongside sea glass. Alive, they are a voracious predatory Sea Snail hunting out Sea Squirts
#Cowrie #Shell #Rockpool #MarineLife #Nature
A young Great Spider Crab traversing a Shetland Rockpool. It has adorned its carapace with bits of algae to help it avoid detection by predators. Doesn't really work when it just ambles about the pale sand though!
#Rockpool #Safari #MarineLife #Crab #SpiderCrab #Shetland #Nature #Wildlife #Sealife
Love this shot AnnaLois!! 🤩 👍🏼
These Boots Are Made For Walking...
for #AlphabetChallenge theme of #WeekKforKaput
Double whammy - discarded shoe and a ship wreck!
#EastCoastKin #beach #wreck #randomshoe #seaweed #Kernow #bluesky #rockpool #sand #Cornwall
A Velvet Swimming Crab showing off its swimming legs.
These fast aggressive mid sized crabs are common in Shetland in the lower tidal zone, but still a treat to find on a Rockpool Safari.
#Crab #Rockpool #Nature #MarineLife #SlowMo
Discarded black leather men's shoe on the beach covered with lime green seaweed. In the back of the photograph is an old iron boat wreck amongst the rocks. Blue sky overhead. Green vegetation masking the coast path on the right. So is that a double kaput? Shoe and wreck?
These Boots Are Made For Walking...
for #AlphabetChallenge theme of #WeekKforKaput
Double whammy - discarded shoe and a ship wreck!
#EastCoastKin #beach #wreck #randomshoe #seaweed #Kernow #bluesky #rockpool #sand #Cornwall
(iPhone camera, I think!)
#Cornwall #RockPool #Water #Coast
#Wellbeing
We live in an amazing world, now everyone stop fighting and spoiling it.
Aeolidia Papillosa
Aeolidia Papillosa
Aeolidia Papillosa
Aeolidia Papillosa
A few stills from my afternoon session with these Grey Sea Slugs.
At first I thought I'd found one of the other similar species when spying the paler one, but it's Y marking on its head confirms Aeolidia papillosa.
#Nudibranch #SeaSlug #MarineLife #Shetland #Rockpool
A Grey Sea Slug, Aeolidia papillosa, prowling through a Shetland Rockpool on the hunt for a tasty anemone (at 2x speed). Also known as the Shag Rug Nudibranch, because.....well just look at it!
🦀🐚🌊🐌
#Nudibranch #MarineLife #Shetland #RockPool #TidePool
Velvet Dorid - Jorunna tomentosa
Velvet Dorid - Jorunna tomentosa
Velvet Dorid - Jorunna tomentosa
Velvet Dorid - Jorunna tomentosa
One of our cutest rockpooling finds recently. Those rhinophores are definitely giving sea bunny. This guy was just sliding along the bottom of a shallow pool out in the open.
#Nudibranch #SeaSlug #Rockpool #TidePool #MarineLife #SeaLife #Shetland
Facelina auriculata
Facelina auriculata
Facelina auriculata
Facelina auriculata from a Rockpool near Lerwick, Shetland.
A dream find, only our 3rd up here in as many years.
Nudibranchs or sea slugs are the absolute highlight for us when exploring our shores.
#SeaSlug #MarineLife #Shetland #Rockpool #Tidepool #SeaLife #Nature
A colour illustration of life in a rock pool. A velvet swimming crab, with a brown body an red eyes has its claws up. There are two brightly coloured (one orange, one pink) anemones on the wall of the rock pool, and two common prawns are swimming around above.
Sharing this because it's Wednesday and why not. One of the many vibrant illustrations from L.R. Brightwell's 'Sea-shore life of Britain', 1947 📖BE.30/B
#rockpool #tidepool
reflections in a rockpool on the beach. black and white photo.
Rockpool. February 2026
#rockpool #beach #rocks #geology #somerset #Scape #Stunday #monochrome #blackandwhite #classicMono #sonyalpha #photography
Rockpool reflections 😎
#sunrise #morning #ocean #summer #Australia #home #coffee #rockpool #reflection #travel #photography #blessed
Salad of baby beetroot, pickled onion, grilled zucchini, farro, feta & white beans #NeilPerry #Rockpool was tasty but - in hindsight - not a Tuesday night dish 😂 #homegrown zucchini, beetroot, garlic & parsley #mymenuplan
A Sea Spider in a Shetland Rockpool under UV light
A Scale Worm in a Shetland Rockpool under UV light
A European Cowrie in a Shetland Rockpool under UV light
A beadlet anemone and a grey topshell in a Shetland Rockpool under UV light
Some Rockpool critters under UV light from night session in Shetland this evening. The Sea Spider just glowed, and the pink from the Cowrie is fantastic.
#MarineLife #Rockpool #Tidepool #Shetland #Sealife
Our safari dates February to August are now available for booking.
February to May
June to August
We've just finalised our schedule up to August 2026!
#MarineLife #Rockpool #Wildlife #GuidedTour
It's been a super busy few weeks, working on lots of exciting new projects but I can now show you this new Mussels and Seaweeds painting l've been working on...
#painting #ocean #seafood #mussels #seaweed #rockpool #pattern #colour #art
🪨Sea urchins can be spotted carrying around objects, like rocks and shells!🐚
🤔Some theories for this put it down to camouflage from predators🐟, or protection from the sun's UV rays☀️
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#seaurchin #greenseaurchin #urchin #rockpool #rockpooling #livingseas #cbmwc #wtsww #CardiganBay
Common brown #shrimp (Crangon crangon) of potted shrimp fame. Masterclass in camouflage: only saw this dashing fellow when light was right. Quick, too: darted away (almost) every time camera came near. Not like #rockpool shrimp below, which seek out your hand like buffet table! Morar Bay, Scotland
💀Check out these spooky sea creatures🎃
🦐 Lots of marine animals, especially ones found in rockpools glow under uv light! 🔦Why not grab a headtorch, wrap up and head down to a local rockpool and see what you can find? 🦀
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#cbmwc #crab #anemone #wtsww #uvlight #halloween #wildlife #rockpool
This jaunty little fellow sat rather obligingly for a #rockpool portrait this past summer. Who'd have guessed these tiny common hermit #crabs (Pagurus bernhardus) are genetically closer to huge king crabs than to typical shore crabs like in post below? At Portnaluchaig near Arisaig, Morar, Scotland.
This striking and rather handsome #seaweed is Polyides rotunda, a type of forkweed. It's a red #alga, so taxonomically a plant. Easily the loveliest and most elegant of the seaweeds I saw on holidays in Scotland this past summer. This one in a #rockpool on the beach at Achaidh Mhoir, near Morar.
💡Wisdom Wednesday💡
Have you noticed the grey and purple stripes around the shell of a purple topshell? 🐚 Did you know that these stripes fade as the snail gets older! 🐌
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#purpletopshell #topshell #seasnail #cbmwc #wtsww #wildlifetrusts #rockpool #NewQuayWales #CardiganBay #NatureNetworksFund
A photo of a tiny red marine creature. A funnel shaped truck is attached by a sucker to some red algae. Up top, seven short arms extend outwards.
Yesterday myself and @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social headed to Gore point near Porlock for some long overdue ride pooling session.. Several awesome new to us species were observed.
First up was my Stalked jellyfish find, possibly Calvadosia campanulata. 1/3
#rockpool #coast #Somerset #marine
Another #rockpool #seaweed that belongs taxonomically plants, but which looks like coral, is this coralline red #alga. Like pink forms below, needs microscopy to identify to species. I find variety of these algal life-forms astonishing, and often strikingly beautiful. Port nam Murrach, near Arisaig.
