Sea Anemone in Laguna Beach

by Angela Stanton

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Sea Anemone in Laguna Beach

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Angela Stanton

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Sea Anemone in Laguna Beach by Angela A. Stanton.

At extreme astronomical low tides--rare to perhaps 2 a year--many tide pools open up for view for the happy climber. I visited the beach called 1000 Steps Beach in Laguna Beach, California, specifically on a day like that for photos like this. Here you see a sea anemone about an inch below the top of the water--I am standing out of the water and so is the camera.
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I have seen many sea anemones in nature and also in salt water fish tanks but I have not yet seen this color before. There were several other anemones and each had somewhat different color. Perhaps this reflected the colors of the cave in which this particular tide pool was and also the reflection of the vivid blue sky and blazing strong sunshine--albeit quite cold with strong cold winds. Perhaps the color was the combination of all of theses.
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1000 Steps Beach in Laguna Beach in California is off of Pacific Coast Highway and at the cross of 9th Avenue. They call it 1000 Steps Beach because once you climb up on the very steep cliff steps, they say you will swear you just climbed 1000 or more steps. It is really only about 250 steps, granted the cliff on which they placed the steps is extremely steep. But coming up on the steps is no longer as hard as it used to be a few years ago when the steps were not even and cement and there was no hand rail. Now it is a 10-minute stair climbing exercise. If you visit this place, you will see people actually using these stairs for their exercise running up and down on it several times.

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